Dr. Atul R Thakare

Last week, I met with a Founder of a California based start-up company who wanted to venture into a EV or Electric Vehicle domain. ‘EV, I think is going to be the next big disruption in India’, He said and asked for my opinion. Since I am working with a government company in the automotive domain, he expected a realistic perspective from my end. It was really difficult to answer his question in a YES or NO manner, at that moment, but I tried to compile my views on the subject. More automotive manufacturers are now devoting a rather large chunk of their resources towards the research and development of electric vehicles. The government is pretty much inclined to converting possibly all automobiles plying on Indian roads to electric vehicles. The goal to achieve this feat was earlier planned to make a reality by 2030. However, it doesn't seem feasible for the government now. At a maximum rate, they are now aiming for 30% Electric Vehicles on road by 2030 under...

(From the title, you must have got an idea about the subject. Of course, General Elections are around the corner and the subject that is over the internet is 'Indian Politics'. Having said that, I would like to understand what is that the common man or public is looking for in the General Elections 2019. In the title of this blog, Apna means Public ka . The tapori Munna in the evergreen movie Rangeela says ‘ Apun Public hai, apun kisiko kuchh bhi bol sakta hai. ’) In most of the competitive exams, we have Multiple Choice Questions with four choices. Sometimes we don’t know the answer, but we feel that the other three choices are wrong and so we eliminate them, and thus selecting the remaining option. In this upcoming General Election also, most of the voters opine that they don’t know who would be the right choice for the nation, but they know for sure that a few of them are not the right choice, so we are eliminating the options that we think are not suitable. The o...