To increase resilience, massively scale up renewables, electrify transport, and make India attractive for world's best companies
From an oasis-of-comfort to crisis-time (sankat kaal) in mere weeks? That was fast. Mid-April, GOI declared India an oasis of comfort and looked condescendingly at those countries responding to skyrocketing crude prices, triggered by Iran-US-Israel war, with fuel price increases, and mandatory shorter workweeks, to cut down their oil and gas consumption. India, GOI then claimed, didn’t need to resort to such emergency measures. By May, however, deep in sankat kaal, GOI itself appeared on the verge of adopting some of these very same steps.