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The more things change...

Tuesday 3 November '09

President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Prize not for what he has achieved but for what it is hoped he will achieve.
Technology is the easy part

Tuesday 6 October '09

What history tells us about the slow and cumbersome adoption of new energy systems....
Don’t underestimate the consumer

Tuesday 1 September '09

The public have just voted us into power. We should not respond by raising the price of petrol and diesel...
Global warming, local grandstanding

Tuesday 4 August '09

Unless public opinion batters through this current political impasse, Copenhagen is unlikely to achieve much
More than just proof of life

Tuesday 7 July '09

A project to provide Indians with a ‘unique’ identity can be variously interpreted. Narrowly construed, it...
The regulatory dilemma

Tuesday 2 June '09

Recent events aren’t an indictment of democratic capitalism
Having the right reflexes

Tuesday 5 May '09

Whatever the shape of our new government, it must have the clarity to address looming threats
Going down the tubes

Wednesday 8 April '09

Exploiting Reliance’s gas discovery needs significant investment in a pipeline and distribution system
A few wrong men

Tuesday 3 March '09

A book on the Great Depresssion illuminates our ruinous times
Spell it out and stick with it

Tuesday 3 February '09

The government must clarify its position on competition in the petroleum sector
The year of unconventional thinking

Tuesday 6 January '09

Conventional wisdom would have it that the drumbeats of change that followed the Mumbai tragedy will mute...
All hands on deck

Tuesday 2 December '08

I am writing this article from my flat in Mumbai adjacent to the Oberoi Hotel. I have been confined to the flat for the past 48 hours or so and done little else than watch with mounting horror the unfolding tragedy of Mumbai.
The shape of things to come

Tuesday 4 November '08

The world as we know it has changed forever”. This is the refrain we heard post 9/11. This is the refrain we hear today.
The fundamental things apply

Tuesday 7 October '08

How the US financial crisis offers instructive pointers to the dilemma of Indian oil companies
Greasing the wheels of government

Tuesday 2 September '08

Instead of cowering behind official committees, politicians should show some spine in setting petroleum prices.
Missionary energy

Tuesday 5 August '08

I hope you do not mind my writing you an open letter, an idea that struck me during your speech and the subsequent...
No slick solutions

Tuesday 1 July '08

The time has come to return to fundamentals. There is understandable perplexity as to why the price of crude oil has...
A dilemma called oil

Tuesday 3 June '08

The government does little or nothing to stem the losses being racked up by the public sector oil marketing companies and sooner...
Two stories of oil

Tuesday 6 May '08

Drawing room chatter has it that oil companies could not have it better. Reality is different.
Waiting for an energy czar

Tuesday 1 April '08

I am writing this article by the light of a gas lamp in my home in the forest sanctuary of Binsar in the hills of Kumaon.
Match-making for energy security

Tuesday 4 March '08

Why is it that in a connected world played upon by the convergent forces of globalisation...
Ghost in the growth story

Tuesday 5 February '08

The budget cycle is upon us. The finance minister will have a strong deck of cards to play with when he addresses...
What will not change?

Tuesday 1 January '08

The answer to that question will provide decision-makers in government and business a more solid foundation on which to manage risk and create value
Can you hear the climate call?

Tuesday 4 December '07

Nothing concentrates the mind better than the impending footfalls of danger.
Oil’s not well

Tuesday 6 November '07

I have often regretted my cautious approach towards the Indian stock market. But I have never rued my decision to...
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