In the first segment of this week’s South Central, hosts Dhanya Rajendran and Pooja Prasanna discuss the LPG crisis and what that could mean for India going forward. They are joined by energy journalist and policy expert Shreya Jai, and climate journalist and researcher Aruna Chandrasekhar.
Dhanya starts the session by asking whether the oil crisis will only hit cooking gas. “The global perspective is that this is possibly the largest block in oil supply in our recent history. On one hand, Trump says this is a small price to pay vis-à-vis safety, but the other side of the story is about import-dependent countries being pushed to find alternatives and pay huge prices. In India, of course, the question is about how a lot of this was foreseeable, which begs the question of why there was no preparation. There is a lot of confusion as well, leading to panic buying and anxiety as well,” says Aruna.
