Creative Destruction is a newsletter bringing a public policy lens to business and chaos, once a month.
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Rohit Chandra
Rohit Chandra
Rohit Chandra is an assistant professor at IIT Delhi’s School of Public Policy and also a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research. Primarily a political scientist and economic historian, his academic work spans the areas of energy policy, state capitalism and infrastructure finance; he has spent the last decade studying the coal and power sectors.
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The Adani saga shows we have learnt nothing from Dabhol
Also, India’s infrastructural growth cannot and should not rely so much on one company and its political goodwill.
Recent Editions
Why techbros should read more sci-fi
Reading books has a way of stimulating social imagination. Science fiction does this in a very specific way—it anchors the aspirations of a class of founders, corporate leaders, inventors and futurists.
15 Dec 2022
Consolidating the party-state’s control over business
China’s playbook—that loyal capital will be treated nicely, but any perceptions of disloyalty or contention will be dealt with punitively—is one that we have seen over and over again across the world.
14 Nov 2022
How to kill a state-owned enterprise in 10 easy steps
The following list will almost certainly guarantee that any pesky vestiges of state ownership will soon be purged from your public balance sheet.
10 Oct 2022
National markets and coercive paternalism
The current brinkmanship between financially stretched states and a fiscally hawkish Centre has turned the idea of market federalism into a game of my way or the highway.
12 Sept 2022
Older Editions
The curious case of a state’s selective benevolence
Forbearance makes for good politics, especially in democracies where politicians have to be responsive to voter preferences.
08 Aug 2022
Dreams of a green factory (and the reality)
Current hype would have us believe that India is on the cusp of a green industrial revolution. The reality of an energy transition will likely be far more complicated and messy.
06 Jun 2022
The complicated relationship between governments and corporate consultants
Corporate consultants bring expertise, but in their bid to please their clients (read governments), they often cross an ethical line, which works against the principles of good public policy.
04 Apr 2022
Who watches the watchmen?
The recent NSE fiasco indicates a larger systemic problem: there is a general malaise, seeping deep among India’s sectoral regulators.
07 Mar 2022
Learning to live with monopolies
As India wanders into the jaws of monopoly, the question is whether it can try to extract its pound of flesh from the monopolist.
07 Feb 2022