Some people and organisations have an enviable ability to focus on what matters the most… to them. One great example is the National Italian American Foundation. Founded in 1975 as, in their own words, a “non-profit” “with no political affiliations”, its mission is “to serve as a resource for the…

23 May 2007 @ 02 : 28 pm It’s that time of the year again. First week of June is just round the corner. Everybody is talking about when it would start. About how it is going to affect the public this year. …

19 November 2009 @ 6:46 am Electric vehicles are cleaner than fossil fuel driven ones. True or False? Did I hear, “Of course, it’s true!” ? Or was it “False, you’ve only moved the pollution from the cars to the power plants!”? …

20 November 2009 @ 2:49 am If you’ve been following the lead up to the climate change conference at Copenhagen this December, (which has been on everyone’s lips here at SNRE), you might have noticed that there have been a series of talks between India and a few developed countries…

21 November 2009 @ 7:31 am The first test match against Sri Lanka at Ahmedabad ended in a draw. Not very surprising, considering that 14 out of the 30 tests between India and Sri Lanka have been drawn, quite tamely most of the time. …

16 July 2011 @ 6:38 pm What is the Real India? The big cities with a rising middle class, malls and glass-facade buildings? The massive slums that lie right next to them? The villages where people are content with what little they have? …

8 August 2011 @ 10:25 am That the once-little town Udumalaipettai, where I spent the first two years of my life, has a lot of wind farms is a well-known fact. …

30 January 2012 @ 5:55 am Dear Sir, I want to congratulate you on your not-so-recent appointment as the Chairman of the Press Council of India. Since taking over, you’ve done some amazing things, some of them so amazing that I cannot help but resort to hyperbole while describing your…

6 September 2012 @ 9:46 pm As of April 2012, the accelerated depreciation benefit for wind energy projects in India was discontinued. This was expected to hit the industry hard. This fear seemed real enough until some developers recently figured out that they didn’t have to depend on turnkey solutions…