By 2015, India had installed over 25,000 megawatts of wind power capacity, concentrated primarily in the states of Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra, making it the fourth largest wind energy producer in the world after China, the USA, and Germany. The Indian wind industry, driven by the country's monsoon wind systems and government renewable energy targets, had grown from virtually nothing in the 1980s to a major industrial sector employing hundreds of thousands of people. India's wind energy success was shaped by the country's abundant wind resources, including the strong southwest monsoon that every year dominates the Indian subcontinent from June to September.

The monsoon wind has been arguably the single most important meteorological phenomenon in the entire history of South Asian poetry — the awaited south-west wind that brings rain and renewal appears in Sanskrit poetry, Tamil Sangam literature, Urdu ghazal, Bengali verse, and the entire classical tradition of Indian seasonal poetry known as Barahmasa (twelve-month poetry). Poets from Kalidasa, whose Meghaduta (Cloud Messenger) is a poem addressed to a wind-borne cloud, to Rabindranath Tagore, whose Gitanjali celebrates the monsoon wind's divine message, to contemporary eco-poets like Arundhathi Subramaniam have made the seasonal wind central to their poetic vision. India's wind energy development is thus inseparable from one of the world's richest literary traditions of wind poetry.