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How to secure India's energy

The core challenge of energy security is to build up domestic supply through clean coal and renewable sources

Is the worst over?

Growth revival will be more tentative, inflation sharper, and external pressures more acute than pronouncements suggest

Nitin Desai: The world's new energy economy

New oil supply projections and the failure of climate talks mean that India must alter its geostrategic stance

Nitin Desai: The end of crony capitalism?

There are alternatives to auctions that also reduce discretion

Nitin Desai: What the FM must do

Don't cook up projections to make the deficit look good, and don't hand out tax goodies to the middle class

Nitin Desai: The Centre's assets

The government needs to value, manage and monetise its vast assets better

Nitin Desai: Taxing the land

The next Finance Commission must address the dwindling of land revenue, which will also help with black money

Nitin Desai: Balancing the future

India's short-term problems should not obscure the necessary changes for long-term fiscal stability

Nitin Desai: Falling prey to gigantism

Implementing the National River-Linking Project, as the Supreme Court has directed, throws up many problems

Nitin Desai: A real market for power

Open access for consumers of electricity and a more effective market exchange for power are necessary

Nitin Desai: What Rio needs is responsibility

The 'American way of life' - and, for that matter, the way of life everywhere - has to be up for negotiation at Rio

Nitin Desai: Right to principals

Empower school principals to truly deliver education to India

Nitin Desai: The rise of the states

We must strengthen the institutions that will allow us to cope with a weak Centre

Nitin Desai: A Budget scorecard

The UPA's will to govern will be tested

Nitin Desai: Growth, not prudence

The Budget this year must restore confidence in the India growth story