Category: Viewpoint
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Decarbonisation Is a Dependency Swap. India Should Price It.
TL;DR India’s energy transition replaces imported fuel with imported equipment, bought from fewer suppliers. India holds 10.4% of the world’s fossil reserves relevant to electricity and 2.8% of the critical material reserves; China holds a third of the latter. Seven years of customs data show India’s imports of four clean-technology components rising from $3.37 billion…
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What No Nobel Prize In Science Post Raman Means For India
No better time to analyse Indian Science than the week of Nobel Prizes. The week, where very established scientists from across the globe, with a blazing trail of legacy behind them, were awarded this very illustrious honour of being a Nobel Laureate. This honour though hasn’t reached India ever since 1930. The first and the…
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Why Science Prevails In A World Full Of Pseudoscience
The year 2020, the year the world was supposed to change, the year flying cars should have been a common sight, the year when the world should have been a far better place to live. For decades and decades now, philosophers have been romanticizing this year and boy did this year surprise us! 2020, is…