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India Changing Economic Policies and future

Born in 1990, I was born into shining India era. By the time I entered middle school, Vajpayee was in power with help of Coalition. Left parties were not in power and India was on the path of big infrastructure projects. But the biggest part of this development was investment in IT sector.  I was always inclined to be an engineer but my interests were in core departments. By the time I was trying to get into college though, India was changing. It was on the path of becoming the backroom for global IT companies. I chose computer because India had chosen computer. And coincidentally, the college I entered was celebrating its 10 year Anniversary. The college was literally created after I was born and coincidentally the entire IT city was built around the same time, from scratch. It was the biggest experiment gone right.  And India was now in the race. Every state wanted to build new IT cities. The first time I saw Hitech City and the big building with block lettered T C S on it, ...
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Fight vs Global Warming and reality

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During Paris 2015 conference on global warming, 196 countries out of 198 signed a global agreement. The conference talked about impact of Global Warming and price they are willing to pay to maintain global temperature within a threshold. This is really serious topic, the change in temperature impacts agriculture and food security, droughts, floods, storms and hurricanes. Global warming is greatest challenge for 21st century and it can't be fought alone. Richer countries like USA, Canada, European union took more responsibility to take the world in new age of renewables from natural gas and petroleum. While developing countries planned to shift from mediocre Coal plants to renewables. Even with this in goal, everyone knew, there would be intermedieate dependence on petroleum. So let's take a look at current petroleum economics. There are 198 countries but top 10 countries have 87% of global crude oil. Not all of these countries are working together. OPEC consisting of all b...
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