Foreword / by Director General Kandeh Yumkella -- Foreword / by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton -- Prologue -- The energy impoverished : seeking a greater understanding of a complex and wicked problem -- Narrative one: women, wood & burning: patchwork lives in the Satkosia Gorge -- Narrative two: land & living: the paradox of Kutch -- Narrative three: stalled by tradition: energy on the islands of Brahmaputra -- Narrative four: cause & effect: feedback loops in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan -- Narrative five: searching for agency: the power of people and communities -- Epilogue.