Tuesday 6 November '07
I have often regretted my cautious approach towards the Indian stock market. But I have never rued my decision to...Tuesday 2 October '07
There’s a message from our cricketing triumph in South Africa: The youth are impatient with underperformance, and with explanations that justify such underperformance. Leaders must take note.Tuesday
4 September '07The nuclear deal will allow India to forge technological partnerships on which growth can be sustainably builtTuesday
7 August '07Price regulation of petroleum products has only encouraged cronyism and adhocism. Government must stop shooting itself in the footTuesday
3 July '07Debates on climate change in India get bogged down in denunciations of the West. We must not lose sight of the fact that there is no trade-off between carbon mitigation and growthTuesday
5 June '07The R Group recommendations on the liberalisation of the petroleum sector have been summarily bypassed. The unhappy consequences are with usTuesday
8 May '07The era of cheap oil may be over. The biofuels industry is being given a massive push. Could this ‘biofuels craze’ have adverse implications for food security?Tuesday
3 April '07Incentives matter. But to yield desirable outcomes, they must be backed by information and by institutions that ensure an unfettered flow of such informationWednesday
7 March '07It may not be politically tenable to privatise PSUs. But can we make them less risk averse, more open to creative and unorthodox ideas?Tuesday
6 February '07How can we weaken the link between growth, energy demand and environmental pollution? The finance minister’s budget speech must take on this questionTuesday
2 January '07To meet the hydrocarbon challenge of the future, we urgently need a ‘technology mission’ in the energy sectorTuesday
5 December '06My suggestion is that a formula be laid down, so that when prices rise above decreed limits, the burden will be shared by government, companies, and consumers.Tuesday
7 November '06We need to summon political will to tackle climate change, make it an issue of legislative priority. There is no more room for inertia and adhocismTuesday
3 October '06We need to sophisticate our planning process and better prepare ourselves to understand and respond to the mood shifts of the paper trader. Scenario planning is one optionMonday
4 September '06The oil marketing companies are sliding towards financial ruin, the pathway to petroleum deregulation cluttered with broken assurancesMonday
7 August '06Does the ‘‘resource nationalism’’ of the producer nations and the emergent concept of Asian producer-consumer cooperation pose a threat to the West?Monday
3 July '06It is important that we identify and implement clear measures for reducing gasoline consumption and place demand conservation alongside development of indigenous hydrocarbons...Friday
16 June '06As much as football, the craze over World Cup is because it gives shape to the vision of a multiracial, meritocratic and free society.Monday
5 June '06The subcontinent contains a relative abundance of gas reserves. Will gas be the fuel of the future?Monday
1 May '06Even though National Oil Companies hold 80 per cent of the world’s hydrocarbon reserves, India has often displayed an indifference to them. It is time we developed a durable, strategic and interdependent relationshipMonday
3 April '06Democratic politics compels a short-term view; economic deregulation a challenge to the status quo.
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