T he sky was full of clouds as the aircraft soared, dispersing rain seeds. The air was cool with moisture. With folded hands, you pleaded with the cloud-seeding gods: Rain, rain.

The rain didn’t oblige.

The next day, Wednesday, another aircraft roared into view: “Rashtrapati in Rafale… soars in the skies,” said India Today. Six months after Operation Sindoor, President Droupadi Murmu took off on a Rafale sortie from Ambala Air Force station — a first for the supreme commander of the Indian armed forces. Show Full Article

If only Murmu could have plucked up a few rain clouds along the way and brought them back to Delhi. If only that were possible….

What was possible is another first: On Tuesday, the first experiment to induce rainfall in the capital by cloud-seeding to reduce air pol

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