Gold, Geopolitics, and India’s Economic Discipline
Hon’able Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent appeal asking Indians to voluntarily avoid purchasing gold jewellery for one year is not merely a symbolic patriotic gesture.
Category Environment, Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
India’s Jet Fuel Folly: Why Domestic Ethanol Is A Net Economic Drain
US President Donald Trump’s assault on the global economy and, in particular, the world’s poor, continues. While he has extended the Iran ceasefire indefinitely, American forces continue to commit piracy, boarding and taking over ships that the US had sanctioned over the export of Iranian oil.
Manufacture and Other Operations in Warehouse Regulations (MOOWR): Boosting or Hindering Make-in-India?
If you have not heard of MOOWR, and think the term probably refers to a cow’s moo
turning into a growl in protest against the abuse she is being subjected to in the Indian
political discourse, you can be excused. The MOOWR in question, however, is not
anything remotely bovine or pastoral. It is a policy initiative by the government meant to
help the noble cause of Make-in-India, which ends up ignobly harming the project of
indigenous manufacture.
Elevating Coal Gasification in India’s Energy Security Framework
TK ARUN The ongoing war in the Persian Gulf shows why India must leverage its most abundant fuel to substitute for imports of hydrocarbons Coal is so 19th-century, oil and gas ooze 20th-century ‘modernity’, while renewables spell contemporary, climate-conscious cool —…
Beyond LPG:Rethinking India’s Cooking Energy with Induction Technology
As LPG prices spike and Qatar's gas exports get choked off, India must make the politically difficult shift to coal-powered electric cooking.
Why Kerala Bears the Brunt of the Cooking Gas Shortage
TK Arun The state government and organisations of the hospitality sector should get together to take remedial action. The shortage of cooking gas, LPG, at commercial eateries affects different states and towns differently. It is a particular problem in Kerala,…
Children at the Centre of Climate-Resilient Cities
Children are disproportionately affected by climate harms—they need to be at the center of local efforts to build resilience.