Four decades of covering energy markets teaches you one thing: complexity never simplifies, it just shifts.
I began as a journalist in Kolkata when energy meant keeping lights on. Two decades later, I joined ONGC for another twenty years—learning how boardroom strategies translate into operational reality. Training across India and Europe on energy transition revealed a truth: everyone’s improvising, some just do it more elegantly.
Today’s energy paradoxes fascinate me. Shell invests billions in renewables while expanding oil operations. Governments promise net-zero while securing gas imports. Solar costs collapse, yet grid infrastructure requires trillions.
This isn’t contradiction—it’s transformation at civilizational scale.
Newscript Energy World was conceived for this moment. While headlines chase daily volatility, we examine deeper currents: how carbon markets redistribute wealth, which clean technologies will actually scale, why regulatory footnotes matter more than policy speeches.
Our philosophy:
Energy, Beyond Headlines. The forces reshaping global power systems operate beneath surface coverage. Understanding them requires journalism that explains complex systems rather than advocates simple solutions.
The energy transition will redraw economic maps and shift geopolitical power over coming decades. Success depends on engineering breakthroughs and financial innovation, regulatory wisdom and consumer adoption, international cooperation and competitive dynamics.
For policy architects, industry veterans, and investors navigating this transformation: we decode the complexity that determines winners and losers.
The most significant industrial revolution of our time deserves journalism worthy of its scale.
The author is the former Executive Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Newscript Energy World.