How low grade thermal energy - which refers to the simple ways of using sunshine to cook food, heat water, dry vegetables and fruits, to desalinate and pasteurise water - is of great relevance to India which is a poor country but awash with sunshine. How this will liberate the women of India, both the urban woman who can save in LPG and kerosene and find more time to attend to other chores and the rural woman who now has to trudge for miles for scraps of firewood and spend their lives in smoke filled kitchens. The book runs to 68,000 words. The following are the chapter headings: