The Mirror Above Us
Nearly every serious conversation about artificial intelligence today is, at bottom, a conversation about cost.…
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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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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 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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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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The Philosophy of Risk: India’s Ancient Lesson for a Modern Dilemma
“The fundamental uncertainty of life and economics cannot be eliminated, only managed.” — John Maynard Keynes…
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The Reinvention of a Titan: How India’s Paint Giants Are Fighting to Stay Relevant
This post is a continuation of “The Great Indian Paint-Off: Conglomerates vs. Incumbents” For decades, the…
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Nuclear Energy — A Pragmatic Pivot in a Carbon-Constrained World
Over the past decade, energy policy has been dominated by a polarized debate: on one…
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Transmission – The Silent Bottleneck That Threatens India’s Energy Transition
While I have used solar and wind projects to frame much of this discussion, let…
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Revitalising India’s Energy Future: Why Nuclear Energy Is Indispensable?
The post was first published in ISB Blog on 19th Februrary 2025. Introduction Recent disasters…
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Space Wars: The Global Race to Dominate India’s Connectivity
The global race for satellite internet supremacy is unfolding on multiple fronts, from high-tech constellations…
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Digitisation – Making grid future ready
Electric grid is becoming more and more important when we are looking towards electrifying the…
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Smart Metering – An Indian Approach
Let me start with Machiavelli’s quote for the affairs of state “At the beginning, a…