Amid Delhi's severe air pollution, the recent cloud seeding attempts conducted by IIT Kanpur in collaboration with the Delhi government, unfortunately, didn't yield the desired results due to insufficient moisture in the clouds. The trials aimed to induce artificial rain to combat the city's declining air quality. However, a Kolkata scientist successfully conducted a cloud seeding experiment over Kolkata in 1952, that too with limited resources.

Who was SK Banerji?

Dr Sudhanshu Kumar Banerji, a renowned Kolkata scientist and former director general of the India Meteorological Department,

managed to induce rain with nearly 100% success, earning him the affectionate nickname "Megh Banerji" among his peers. He was India's first artificial rainmaker who made it rain in Kolkata in 1952 using

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