

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.Tuesday 6 October '09
What history tells us about the slow and cumbersome adoption of new energy systems....Tuesday
1 September '09The public have just voted us into power. We should not respond by raising the price of petrol and diesel...Tuesday
4 August '09Unless public opinion batters through this current political impasse, Copenhagen is unlikely to achieve muchTuesday
7 July '09A project to provide Indians with a ‘unique’ identity can be variously interpreted. Narrowly construed, it...Tuesday
2 June '09Recent events aren’t an indictment of democratic capitalismTuesday
5 May '09Whatever the shape of our new government, it must have the clarity to address looming threatsWednesday
8 April '09Exploiting Reliance’s gas discovery needs significant investment in a pipeline and distribution systemTuesday
3 March '09A book on the Great Depresssion illuminates our ruinous timesTuesday
3 February '09The government must clarify its position on competition in the petroleum sectorTuesday
6 January '09Conventional wisdom would have it that the drumbeats of change that followed the Mumbai tragedy will mute...Tuesday
2 December '08I 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.Tuesday
4 November '08The world as we know it has changed forever”. This is the refrain we heard post 9/11. This is the refrain we hear today.Tuesday
7 October '08How the US financial crisis offers instructive pointers to the dilemma of Indian oil companiesTuesday
2 September '08Instead of cowering behind official committees, politicians should show some spine in setting petroleum prices.Tuesday
5 August '08I hope you do not mind my writing you an open letter, an idea that struck me during your speech and the subsequent...Tuesday
1 July '08The time has come to return to fundamentals. There is understandable perplexity as to why the price of crude oil has...Tuesday
3 June '08The government does little or nothing to stem the losses being racked up by the public sector oil marketing companies and sooner...Tuesday
6 May '08Drawing room chatter has it that oil companies could not have it better. Reality is different.Tuesday
1 April '08I 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.Tuesday
4 March '08Why is it that in a connected world played upon by the convergent forces of globalisation...Tuesday
5 February '08The budget cycle is upon us. The finance minister will have a strong deck of cards to play with when he addresses...Tuesday
1 January '08The answer to that question will provide decision-makers in government and business a more solid foundation on which to manage risk and create valueTuesday
4 December '07Nothing concentrates the mind better than the impending footfalls of danger.Tuesday
6 November '07I have often regretted my cautious approach towards the Indian stock market. But I have never rued my decision to...