M Ramesh

A senior journalist and feature writer with BusinessLine, Ramesh is an author and a music critic. He writes on a range of sectors, notably energy, with a special focus on renewable energy, climate change, banking, insurance and non-banking finance companies, oil and gas, nuclear energy and space. He has been the chief of Chennai Bureau with BusinessLine and was the head of the team responsible for covering on all economic activities in and around the city. Ramesh has authored a romance-thriller, Silence of the Cicadas. He reviews Carnatic music concerts for The Hindu.

Shadow over solar

Is geopolitics at play in the recent high safeguard duty recommendation?

The Pied Piper of Madras

Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan is an innate genius with stage presence

Stop being an ostrich about climate change

If you join a public sector fossil fuel company, make sure you have a back-up job!

Green milk and ice-cream

Hatsun Agro is leading the charge in the industry to adopt cleaner energy in its functioning

No cheer at the end of the year

We are nowhere near what we envisaged for the year in both wind and solar energy

The era of steam merchants

Generating steam used in industry from solar processes can cut costs and make for a greener planet

There is an urgency to save the planet

But, as was evident in Bonn, we're only taking baby steps in combating climate change

Climate talks, a story of skewed priorities

India and other developing nations worry about ‘adapting’ to disasters

Millennials have much to lose

UNEP’s report on the climate change is not encouraging. Millennials should now take up the cause

Approaching the sky’s limit

If the world does not stick to its declared carbon budget the results could be alarming

Islands take the green energy lead

Forty-four islands have formed an alliance to power themselves with battery storage-backed solar energy

World energy bodies caution India on wind projects

'Competition puts companies under pressure and only the best will survive'