Rohit Chandra | @rohitreads.bsky.social
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Energy, political economy and history. Indian capitalism through coal, power, finance & infra. Asst Prof at @IITDelhi. SF Fan. 6 months only.
Joined December 2014
An op-ed in @IndianExpress today on the fiscal consequences of Deep Decarbonization on coal-rich, RE-poor states.
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One of the most thoughtful biographies I've read in recent years. Full of engineering detail, insight from Visvesvaraya's life, and broader thinking on how this affect Indian engineering as a rising profession. Lovely review of a biographical origin story of Indian engineering.
The career of M. Visvesvaraya, arch-technocrat and statesman, throws much light on how India embraced the idea of modernisation through industrialisation. Aashique Iqbal reviews Aparajith Ramnath's book published by @PenguinIndia.
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RT @namrataraju: As much of North India melts amidst a heat wave, I interview @aditya_vpillai, a doctoral researcher at King’s College/ Vis….
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RT @shreya_jai: Close to 40 Gw of #RenewableEnergy projects tendered in 2023-24 have failed to find takers. More than a year later, central….
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We've done our best to summarize things, but perhaps more importantly, our references span some of the most important work which has been done in this space.
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Much more work needs to be done on Indian coal industry, and we hope that this will help the next generation of scholars study the industry a little more easily.
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As a student studying the Indian coal industry, it was difficult to quickly get a full view of the industry since there wasn't one place where the state of the Indian coal industry, existing social science literature, policy debates, and future issues were all summarized.
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Finally, our review article is out and it's open access!.
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About a year and half ago, @Sandeeppaii , Suravee Nayak, Sree Harica and I started putting together a review article for WIRES Climate Change on India's complicated relationship with its coal industry.
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Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow addresses this point in a slightly different space, the market for creative labour
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This is not creative destruction, it's bad faith extraction of value by loss-making, VC driven platforms. This piece by Thomas Fenn lays out this point beautifully for restaurants and their relationship with food delivery platforms in India.
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Platforms may start with the intent of increasing competition, but we've seen many of them (including most of Big Tech) eventually move towards reducing competition and trying to undermine the very companies who used their platform to provide value.
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RT @namrataraju: 📢📢ANNOUNCEMENT! Episode 4 of "L is for Labour" is just out! Part of our video explainer series on the world of work in Ind….
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RT @TMigrationStory: @namrataraju is back with her engaging video explainer series, L is for Labour. In this episode she unpacks the ingred….
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100% agreement.
One of my reflections on building a Public Policy career is to get as much work experience as possible. Even the finest schools cannot capture the complex mesh of interests, people, power dynamics, incentives and voice. You have to be in places where you are able to learn and.
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RT @AiyarYamini: Delighted to close the year with the publication of my book "Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools". This book is….
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Hot take. This isn't Bill Gates' language. He's spent too much time around randomista economists and monitoring and evaluation types who've been saying exactly this for decades. Let's be mad at them too.
#WATCH | Bill Gates' comment calling India a "laboratory to try things" in his podcast with #ReidHoffman has sparked a massive debate online. The podcast has gone #viral, but not everyone is on board with #BillGates' perspective. #BillGatesPodcast #TechMogul #viralvideo
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RT @NFI_India: 🚨Call for applications! 🚨 .Be a part of the #AbhijitSen Rural Internship—a 50-day research experience where you’ll research….
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Useful historical reflection by Harish Damodaran on business-state relations, the Dalmia-Jain incident and its meaning for the current moment post-indictments.
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Strong piece on the emerging flaws of the solar E-auction system.
In which I argue how the latest #AdaniGroup saga exposes the chinks in the much touted e-auction method that has awarded over 100 GWs of green projects. Hope u will like it. Would love your views. Do share your thoughts. #RenewableEnergy @SECI_Ltd.
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