AMISP – India’s smart meter programme
The financing model was right. The enforcement architecture that should have come with it was…
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India built the capacity. Now it must deliver the power
India has all but won the race to add non-fossil capacity. The harder contest —…
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The Mirror Above Us
Nearly every serious conversation about artificial intelligence today is, at bottom, a conversation about cost.…
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Beyond the Protests – The Design Equilibrium of India’s Medical Crisis
India's medical admissions system is routinely described as a scarcity problem contaminated by corruption. This…
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The boardroom has become the front line of technology geopolitics
The integration of the last three decades was not simply a pattern of trade. It…
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Uttarakhand is India’s sustainability champion. Its mountains are emptying anyway.
The state's number-one ranking masks a spatial collapse — and a budget that funds the…
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The duck curve comes for India’s renewable transition
At 3.38 pm on 25 April, India set a new peak power-demand record of 256…
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India’s Consumers Got the Promise. Britain’s Got the Money !
Why India's smart metering consumer promise remains undeliverable — and what would actually fix it.…
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India’s ₹1.91 Lakh Crore Lesson – Why Incentives Alone Cannot Buy an Industrial Revolution
There is one uncomfortable truth: money, by itself, does not build manufacturing ecosystems. It merely…
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India’s Drone Sector’s Uncomfortable Truth
India's industrial ambitions unfold across five decades — from the License Raj's cumbersome machinery to…
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The $2.7 Trillion Blind Spot: How War is Killing the Climate
The global strategic landscape in 2026 is defined by an unprecedented convergence of existential threats…
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Resolving the Grid Bottleneck in India’s NEP 2026 – The ₹200 Lakh Crore Capital Call
For three decades, energy economists have relied on a comforting heuristic: electricity demand marches in…
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India’s Electricity Distribution Turnaround: Real Progress or Statistical Mirage?
For most Indians, electricity is like air: invisible in its presence and intolerable in its…