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How resilient is India’s energy sector (aka, things the Iran War forces us to ask)?
As the Iran war (hopefully) comes to an end, one starts wondering about the big take-aways for India. In many ways, the months since March have been puzzling. Despite the enormity of the energy shock, the country seems to have dodged dire outcomes. That, however, is because the government successfully pushed the crisis onto India’s economic and social peripheries. And so, in this report, CarbonCopy and I tried to gauge what the war tells us about India’s energy sector, especially when seen through the analytic frame of resilience — or the capacity of a system to absorb shocks and stay more or less unaffected. Our conclusion: Our energy sector can only absorb short-term shocks. Here is why.
I am an Indian journalist with interests in energy, environment, climate and India’s ongoing slide into right-wing authoritarianism. My book, Despite the State, an examination of pervasive state failure and democratic decay in India, was published by Westland Publications, India, in January 2021. My work has won the Bala Kailasam Memorial Award; the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award; five Shriram Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism; and, more recently, been a finalist at the True Story Award and GIJN’s Global Shining Light Awards. Write to me at despitethestate@protonmail.com.
“Westland closure: Titles that are selling fast and a few personal recommendations,” by Chetana Divya Vasudev, Moneycontrol. (Because this happened too. In February, a year after DtS was released, Amazon decided to shutter Westland, which published the book. The announcement saw folks rushing to buy copies of Westland books before stocks run out.)
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