Vikram S Mehta
The writer is the chairman of Brookings India and senior fellow, Brookings Institution.
Mon, Jul 04, 2022
Vikram Singh Mehta writes: Ukraine war has disrupted old energy order. We cannot afford to continue with our existing siloed approach
Mon, Jun 06, 2022
Vikram S Mehta writes: Issues related to energy security, climate change mitigation have been brought to the forefront.
Tue, May 31, 2022
Vikram Singh Mehta writes: If there were an India-led peacemaking initiative, Jaishankar might be the best qualified to crack the Ukrainian diplomatic impasse
Mon, Apr 04, 2022
The effort now should be to create avenues for a face-saving back down. India has the credibility and international clout to help
Mon, Mar 07, 2022
To deal with energy volatility, India must build reserves, revive conversations on pipeline with Iran, Turkmenistan
Mon, Jan 03, 2022
The ‘irresistible force’ for clean energy has met the ‘immovable object’ of an embedded fossil fuel energy system. How can policies reconcile this paradox?
Tue, Dec 07, 2021
🔴 Vikram S Mehta writes: COP27 should be led by a collective of experts, who can accelerate the implementation of the action plan towards net zero.
Tue, Nov 02, 2021
Vikram S Mehta writes: It would not alter the existing roles and responsibilities of the various ministries that oversee petroleum, coal, renewables and power, but would identify and handle all of the issues that currently fall between the cracks created by the existing structure.
Tue, Oct 05, 2021
Vikram S Mehta writes: The price surge must be leveraged to improve energy efficiency, intensify demand conservation and intervene to prevent the switch to coal, among other measures.
Tue, Sep 07, 2021
Vikram S Mehta writes: Private-public investment structures make sense, but they must be modelled to also generate social value. In today’s world, there are no shortcuts to sustainable development.
Mon, Aug 02, 2021
Vikram S Mehta writes: Hardeep Singh Puri should not, in the current context, see his responsibility through the siloed prism of oil and natural gas. He should broaden the aperture and become the progenitor of the energy transition.
Mon, Jul 05, 2021
Vikram S Mehta writes: In spite of vaccine nationalism and dithering over environmental issues, there is still hope that binding commonalities of humanity – trust, compassion, friendship, conversation – can usher change.
Mon, Jun 07, 2021
No single entity, whether government, corporate or civic society, has the tools to manage the fallout
Mon, May 03, 2021
Rather than focus only on the endgame of decarbonisation, India must first ‘green’ its fossil fuel energy basket by increasing the share of natural gas
Sun, May 02, 2021
Rather than focus only on the endgame of decarbonisation, India must first ‘green’ its fossil fuel energy basket by increasing the share of natural gas
Mon, Apr 05, 2021
The former petroleum secretary, who passed away two weeks ago, placed oil and gas exploration in India on a sure footing.
Mon, Mar 01, 2021
Decarbonisation has become a buzzword. To ensure it does not remain just that but translates into effective action on the ground, policy makers will have to build structures that reflect the woven, multidimensional, interdependent and interconnected nature of the energy ecosystem.
Mon, Feb 08, 2021
The pace of the further development of relations will depend crucially on the quality, knowledge and influence of the people that President Biden appoints to his India desk.
Mon, Jan 04, 2021
If there is one straw that COVID has offered, it is the tangible evidence that no one entity or group — the state, markets, businesses, entrepreneurs, scientists — can tackle existing and emergent economic and social problems on their own. They have to work together to resolve them.
Mon, Dec 07, 2020
How should India, an economy dependent on fossil fuels, navigate future energy transitions? A new book has some pointers
Mon, Nov 02, 2020
A stark manifestation of the two-track development of our socio-economic polity is the ubiquitous spread of digital technology.
Mon, Oct 05, 2020
This pressure point could be our youthful population who must realise increasingly that their future hinges on the effectiveness of the government’s policy response to the uncertain and evolving pressures of changing economic and industrial structures, job profiles and social dynamics.
Mon, Sep 07, 2020
It could see intensification of populism, further erosion of guardrails of basic human rights
Mon, Aug 03, 2020
A parallel council with a similarly blended mix should be set up with individual states to take into account local factors, and in the spirit of cooperative federalism.
Mon, Jul 06, 2020
I know my father would have advocated India find a diplomatic solution to the current imbroglio. But given his experience of Maoist China, he would have also urged that our velvet glove of diplomacy must now cover an iron fist of resolve.