By: Dr. Zakaria Siddiqui, Research Associate, J-PAL South Asia [With Joel Ruet, 2009, in J. Lesourne and W.C.Ramsay (eds) "Energy in India's future:Insights" IFRI, Paris]
Beyond India’s vast field of macroeconomics with their already sizeable concerns, lies a sea of variegated microeconomic issues: public/private coordination issues, locales, urban and rural specificities linked to poverty alleviation, regional variations, and particular dynamism of some firms which have already gone global and are inventing new business models. This paper shows that energy is no exception; contrary this subject has economic as well as political implications par excellence, and concerns macro as well macro levels. It exemplifies the complexities, progress and contradictions of the country, and its continuing national and social construction.
Given India’s increasing growth rates and catching-up processes, and given its demographic dynamics, India is now shaping its own models (business, urban forms, adoption/development of technology) for the next decades.
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In Hinduism, the goddess Shakti is associated with creative energy as well as motion. This idea is in line with the recompositions and inventiveness one sees in India. This image, thought belongs to the Hindu Pantheon, has been in fact rather “secularized” and its use here should be seen in this sense. Less of a religious symbol in contemporary India, Shakti has largely become a symbol of the state: Shakti Bhawan—literally the house of energy—is the official lnme by which every Indian knows the Ministry of Power and its Bureau of Energy Efficiency in Hindi, the second official language of India with English.
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