Gas has started to flow from Reliance?s gigantic East Coast discovery. This has significance not simply because of the monetary…
The ?Great Depression? of 1929-1931 was not foreordained. It was rather the direct result of a chain of decisions taken…
The government should take advantage of the respite in oil prices and establish a transparent, predictable and durable mechanism for…
Conventional wisdom would have it that the drumbeats of change that followed the Mumbai tragedy will mute; that memories will…
I am writing this article from my flat in the NCPA building in Mumbai adjacent to the Oberoi Hotel. Confined…
?Uni-multipolarity? was one academic?s catch phrase for the post Berlin Wall world system. The Americans dominated but within a framework…
Apples and oranges should not be compared. Notwithstanding I am going to make such a comparison. I am going to…
Petroleum sits at the nub of every politician?s deepest dilemmas. The dilemma of equity versus efficiency.
One of perhaps several other initiatives required to accelerate the drive towards energy security was to find an ?energy champion??an…
It is against this backdrop of opacity and confusion that I am advocating that governments now focus on underlying long-…
The government is doing little to stem the losses being racked up by the public sector oil marketing companies and…
Private oil companies have technologies. But they have also had to accept the reduced probability of finding new reserves and…
The FM is not the custodian of India?s energy policy, but in the absence of any such custodian, it would…
Nothing concentrates the mind better than impending danger. The gathering in Bali can hear oncoming rumbles of peril from two…
Conventional wisdom has it that the voter is a gullible hedonist who cannot see beyond his immediate needs, but the…
In the history of every nation, there are events and decisions that with the benefit of hindsight can be said…
In the din of the cacophonous multilateral dialogue on climate change and the actions that countries must take to mitigate…
