For a predominantly clean system, India must move forward incrementally and make natural gas the “next stop” in its energy journey
Message in the book is that rather than focus only on the endgame of decarbonisation, India must first “green” its fossil-fuel energy basket. This can be done by increasing the share of natural gas.
Over the barrel: Lessons from Uttarakhand and Texas
These two events are unrelated, other than possibly the link of climate change, but on examination of the reasons for the consequential material and human misery, they offer common insights
Over the barrel: A brief history of India-US relations
The US and India are structurally bound. They have common democratic values and convergent geopolitical, economic and strategic interests. The personal predilections of Presidents and Prime Ministers can weaken the bond, but
Over the barrel: What must Indian business leaders do
The challenge for Indian CEOs is to navigate a pathway that sustains the benefits of digital tools, but without deepening existing social and economic inequalities
No country can risk a K-shaped recovery
Reliance has added nearly $10 billion, and most technology and e-commerce companies have done well. But, a large swathe of others, especially in the mid- and small-cap category, in particular, restaurants, hotels, real estate
Public policy lessons from Covid-19
Create policy councils for subjects that require a mix of administrative guidance, and technical & specialist inputs.
Over the barrel: China, through the eyes of a diplomat
My father, Jagat Singh Mehta, was a diplomat and, to the extent our foreign service acknowledges specialisation, he was considered a Sinologist.
What India needs to do amid oil uncertainty in the Covid world
What if prices fall so low that it makes no commercial sense for ONGC/OIL to expend public resources on high-risk, high-cost exploration? What if relations between India, Pakistan and China take an ugly turn? What if domestic
World needs to unite to stop global warming
The world is polarised. To expect COP26 to forge global consensus around climate change mitigation is perhaps a chimera. The world needs to find another avenue—one that draws on the power of global society whose members are
Hope for new decade: State and society will find narrow corridor where both can be in balance
The hope for the new decade must be that our ‘State’ and ‘society’ will find a narrow corridor where both can be in balance (shackled leviathan). This would reinvigorate our institutions, and accelerate the resolution
Over the barrel: Good governance is good business
It then befalls upon corporate management to define this phrase and to find a pathway that balances the demands of the shareholders for maximal dividends and capital appreciation with the pressures to contribute to societal w
Over the barrel: The future of business
The fourth industrial revolution prefaces a world of deepening distrust towards the established systems and processes of governance in politics and business. This sentiment is evident from the spate of protest movements acros
How capital markets can support flow of credit and capital for productive purposes
Capital markets can support the flow of credit and capital for productive purposes, increase non-tax revenues and revive the animal spirits
Environment must be among new government’s top priorities post Lok Sabha polls
The future projected by reports like BP’s may be the only politically feasible option. But it is clearly not a future that we wish for our children and grandchildren. Energy economics needs to be redefined.
Global warming: Indian leaders can learn from Ocasio-Cortez how to push a climate change policy
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was able to generate a lot of buzz over her climate resolution because she got the timing, the language, and the message right. Recent climate-change-related disasters were fresh in t
Over the barrel by Vikram Mehta: Use of EVMs reduced vote fraud but did not allay fears of techno-illiterate
The usage of EVMs has, no doubt, reduced the incidence of voter fraud, double-counting and strong-arm tactics, but that does not mean it has assuaged the concerns of the techno-illiterate that perhaps their votes might be mis
From global warming to globalisation
The problems we currently face may be substantively and geographically disparate, but in our connected world they bear on each other
Over the barrel: How to save the world from ‘perfect storm’
Global warming is just one example of a problem that does not recognise national boundaries. Pandemics, migration, extremism, nuclear proliferation are some of the other problems that would be unresponsive to nationalist solu
Over the barrel: The challenges petroleum minister faces and how to deal with petro-state bosses
The petroleum minister has to achieve supply security & balance the country’s strategic interests. He should focus on longterm fundamentals demand management, accelerated development of electric vehicles and increased inves
Imran Khan’s proclamations point to a process of friendship, it offers India and Pakistan to contemplate a fresh approach
Imran Khan said: “India needs take but one step and we will take two”. We can be dismissive of such words, or see it as an invitation to re-frame the narrative.
Big dilemma for Modi government: Why there are economic and strategic costs to weakening relations with Iran
There are economic and strategic costs to weakening relations with Iran, but even greater downsides of ignoring Donald Trump. Earlier, when Barack Obama instituted sanctions against Iran, India responded by slowing its import
Over the barrel: New leaders for a changing world order
An overview of the global landscape suggests that instead of converging towards a common purpose for managing and mitigating network-borne threats, the world leaders are adopting divergent, populist and localised approaches.
Over the barrel: Why we need new thinking on CSR
The Act was gazetted in 2014 and, since then, according to the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA), the companies have spent Rs 5,922 crore, Rs 7,549 crore and Rs 8,446 crore in 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, on eligible
Don’t repeat past policy mistakes for oil
Whatever the government does in response to a high oil price regime, it must not ask the oil PSUs to bear the burden. It must not weaken the sinews of a competitive petroleum industry.
Guarding the liberal order: Steel frame of bureaucratic order not so corroded to allow demagogues free run
The steel frame of bureaucratic governance has not been so corroded as to allow demagogues to have their way.
Why India needs a fourth political revolution
On the lines of the fourth industrial revolution, this model, in succession to tribalism, feudalism and democracy, must be based on the will of the people, and must also be responsive to the forces of globalisation, technolog
To shift India from fossil fuel system to clean energy system, NITI Aayog study is a must
The NITI Aayog must carry out a detailed study on what will be required to shift from the incumbent fossil fuel energy system to a clean energy system based on ‘horizon’ technologies.
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