Energising growth

Electricity underpins modern civilisation, as Daniel Yergin points out in his impressive classic on the human quest for energy security. (The Quest: Energy Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, Penguin Press, New York, 2011.) By this measure, not only do large parts of India reside outside the pale of modern civilisation, even the most upmarket neighbourhoods in urban India routinely slip into the dark ages!

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