Two Hungry Elephants

Two elephants - one adult and a juvenile- shake a tree, against the backdrop of a desolate landscape. The smaller elephant is garbed in the colours of the flag of Bangladesh, the larger animal in the colours of the Indian flag.

How the Subcontinental Giants are shaking, and shaping, the Commodity Tree   Building on our previous review on the South Asian Electric Wave, the following article explores the creeping influence of two rising South Asian giants -India, and its economically intertwined shadow-sister, Bangladesh- on global commodity markets.  As will be illustrated in this piece, even […]

Two Billion Light Up: The South Asian Electric Wave

A map depicting South Asia at night, with cities across India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines aglow with electricity

      …In the electric age, platinum, and quartz, and every existing substance can be melted and distilled or sublimed. Thus, mighty new industries have grown up, and many new materials made available to man, as alumnium, silicon, calcium, chromium, the carbides, cyanamid, acetolyene…   Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Scientific American, 1914       […]