AceyMac

  “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” , these were the words of Emerson, that stuck with me, since the very first time I learned of them. It means a great deal to the human civilization, to protect the very nature that gave birth to the human race. Towards that journey, the greatest technological advancement has been in energy storage and e-mobility. While it may seem a pointless endeavor when the electricity used by electric vehicles (EVs) is produced by burning fossil fuels, we have seen a gradual shift towards renewable and clean energy on a global scale in recent years. If this trend is to continue, we may see renewables to be the single largest energy source by the year 2030. However, in this regard, the subcontinent of India faces a rather unusual challenge. How do we get a rather new, costly, and unusual method of mobility to nearly a fourth of the human population within a decade? A population, which itself has poor educational...

In the midst of a fierce war in 1965, the then Indian premier, Shastri said “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan!” (Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer!). It was the truth for the India of then, an agricultural economy, protected by its brave hearts. To a great extent, half of that remains the reality in India after 55 years. While we are still protected by the world’s 4 th most powerful military, we are no longer an agricultural economy. That said, the new age “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan!” (add science) almost entirely ignores the farmer in the middle. Half of the Indian population depends on agriculture, a sector which contributes a little over 15% of the GDP. While these numbers are almost opposite in the modern IT and Engineering Services sector in India  (about 60% contribution to GDP with a little over 20% of India's working population employed in it) , one can see how the economic disparity takes shape. While the world sees a highly efficient ITES industry, where each Indian emp...