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A view of the Shell Technology Centre Bengaluru. Its project to turn waste into fossil fuel dovetails neatly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Photo: Shell Website
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A view of the Shell Technology Centre Bengaluru. Its project to turn waste into fossil fuel dovetails neatly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Photo: Shell Website

Aditi Phadnis
The Shell Technology Centre Bengaluru (STCB) is in the middle of nowhere. It looms on the horizon rather like a set in a Mad Max movie, amid green fields and narrow winding roads. There are complicated structures, domes and pipes. What prepares you for the experience within is a security briefing and a little test you have to take to ensure you have comprehended it. Shell is understandably paranoid about safety. Everyone, all employees, take it equally seriously.

The STCB was inaugurated by Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in March this year and he can’t stop talking about it. The political angle
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