Dhruva Jaishankar spoke to Jersey Lee on the Pacific Polarity podcast on India's re-alignment.
By Udaibir S. Das and David Grigorian
Domestic debt restructuring (DDR) is constrained optimization: success requires not only reducing debt service but preserving the monetary and financial system capable of supporting economic recovery.
By Udaibir Das
Absa and OMFIF have given Africa a decade of disciplined comparison. The next task is to make the consequences of reform equally visible. A country should be able to name an investment that happened because its market improved. Success is not more capital entering markets. It is more productive investment, financed without greater fragility. That is financial sovereignty on the ground.
By Piyush Verma
Energy for Billions: India’s Turnaround and the World’s Future explores the energy choices that can help realize the ambition of Viksit Bharat — a developed India — and the lessons other economies might draw from India’s achievements and unfinished work.
By Piyush Verma
The grid is more than a machine for moving electrons. It is a shared system of costs, responsibilities and reliability. As AI campuses bring their own power, the question is not whether they are on or off the grid, but what they owe it when they still depend on it.
Edited Volume
By Soumya Awasthi, Ishita Deshmukh, Sameer Patil, Kavya Wadhwa, Purushraj Patnaik, Pranoy Jainendran, Sameer Patil, Rahul Rawat, Debjyoti Chakravorty, Basu Chandola, and Tanusha Tyagi
Editor: Dhruva Jaishankar
Energy for Billions: India’s Turnaround and the World’s Future is both a personal memoir and a national chronicle — the story of one man’s journey from a small, unelectrified home in a rural village in India to the global stage of energy and climate diplomacy, and of a nation’s extraordinary transformation from scarcity to leadership in clean energy.
In this deeply engaging narrative, Dr. Piyush Verma blends personal reflection with policy insight to tell the story of India’s energy revolution — a decade that redefined what is possible for emerging economies.
He traces how bold reforms, innovative governance, and inclusive development turned the world’s most populous democracy into a beacon for sustainable growth.
Moving seamlessly between lived experience and global perspective, Energy for Billions captures the courage and conviction behind India’s clean energy milestones — from rural electrification and renewable expansion to its bold 2047 energy independence and 2070 net-zero ambitions. It examines how people, policies, and partnerships together shaped one of the greatest developmental turnarounds during the last decade.
This book is not just about energy systems — it is about courage, leadership, and the will to transform. India’s journey shows that when a billion people are empowered by vision and conviction, they don’t simply light their homes — they illuminate the world.
A personal and national journey — tracing Dr. Verma’s path from growing up without electricity in rural India to shaping global energy policy, mirroring India’s own rise from scarcity to sustainability.
A decade of transformation — capturing India’s breakthroughs in renewable energy, electrification, and governance reform that turned the country into one of the world’s clean energy leaders.
A vision for the future — looking ahead to India’s 2047 energy independence and 2070 net-zero goals, and the lessons its journey offers for the Global South and the world.
Written in simple, engaging language, the book is designed for anyone — not just energy professionals — to understand where energy truly sits in our society, how it shapes our economy, and why it defines our collective future. It connects the human experience with systemic change, making complex transitions both relatable and real.
By Dhruva Jaishankar and Ammar Nainar
Once a quiet backstage function of the armed forces, defence diplomacy has emerged as one of India's sharpest tools of statecraft. From joint exercises and training missions to disaster relief and maritime surveillance, India's military now operates far beyond the battlefield: building trust, shaping partnerships, and projecting the country's strategic interests on a rapidly shifting global stage.
By Dhruva Jaishankar
In its diplomacy, India has reprioritized its near neighborhood, extending financial, developmental, and trading benefits to other South Asian countries and revitalizing more productive regional institutions.
In Vishwa Shastra, Dhruva Jaishankar provides a comprehensive overview of India’s interactions with the world — from ancient times to the present day. He describes a long tradition of Indian statecraft and strategic thinking on international affairs, charts early India’s relations with a vast geography from the Mediterranean and Africa to Southeast and Northeast Asia, and captures the costs and consequences of European colonialism. Jaishankar also describes India’s territorial, economic and governance challenges upon Independence and the origins of India’s rivalries with Pakistan and China.
Speaking to a wide audience that includes policymakers, scholars and especially students, Vishwa Shastra offers both rich historical context and forward-looking strategies for India. Highlighting India’s transition from Cold War non-alignment to post-Cold War realignment, Jaishankar outlines India’s strategic objectives: bolstering national power, securing the neighbourhood, maintaining a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific, and leading at international institutions.
Balanced, comprehensive and rigorous, Vishwa Shastra goes beyond shedding light on how India can maneuver in a challenging geopolitical landscape and advance its interests in an interconnected world: it gives us a clear-eyed perspective on how India might actually define the emerging world order.
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By Andreas Kuehn and Trisha Ray
To examine the policies and their challenges, this chapter draws from in-depth, expert interviews with current and former government officials, trade associations, industry decision-makers, and technology experts, as well as a systematic document analysis of publicly available government and corporate documents.
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