Making Renewables Work: Why India Needs Storage, Not Just Scale
India continues to add renewable power generation capacity without any coherent strategy for its full utilisation, often ordering RE generation to back down to maintain grid stability.
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The Forest Rights Act 2006: Restoring justice to forest communities
Policy UpdateMadhur Thapar Introduction The relationship between India’s tribal communities and forest stretches back millennia, it is characterised by a delicate balance where indigenous populations lived off forest resources but protected the ecosystem at the same time. Over time, colonial…
Rethinking Airport Privatisation: Lessons from India’s Bidding Experience
Airports are local monopolies, for the most part. Who gets to operate them and on what terms matter to the public at large. Sure, there is a regulator, the Aeronautic Economic Regulatory Authority of India to regulate aeronautical and other charges at any given airport.
From Partnership to Competition: The Saudi–UAE Rift in Sudan and Yemen
In recent years several countries in the Middle East, especially from the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council), have weaponised their foreign policies to achieve their perceived geopolitical objectives.
Part-Time Patriarchy: Gender bias in popular media
Patriarchy refers to a system of social organisation in which power, authority and privilege are unevenly distributed in favour of men. It works not only through formal institutions like the state, family or workplace but also through culture, stories, symbols, humour, and everyday representations that normalise unequal gender relations.
Mark Carney at Davos in a BRICS World
TK ARUN Canadian PM’s Davos freedom-from-hegemony speech has been hailed for bold realism; few realise the geopolitical strategy he outlined was called Non-Aligned, from Nehru’s time BRICS is a coalition of the largest emerging markets, striving to expand the space…
Emerging Markets Rally, Iran in Crisis, and ISRO’s Challenges:Weekly Highlights
TK ARUN The promise of emerging markets contrasted sharply with unrest in Iran and a reminder of technological fallibility closer to home. Can bad news for the rich world spell good news for the rest, in today’s interdependent world? It…