Millennials

... you know, millennials as well.

Uh, it's been going on, the sex ratio is improving finally slightly, but not enough.

And, uh, I mean, that's your incel from another level.

These are your protester.

These are your guys with, um, you call them unfuckable because they have no prospects in life.

Uh, their desperation for a job, a government job is because a government job is the only way they'll probably get married or whatever it is.

So is this more because of the economy? What are you thinking?

Kushan, what do you make of this beautiful clusterfuck that our country is?

[laughs] Uh, what do I make of this beautiful clusterfuck? I don't know what I really make of everything yet.

I think, um, there was a problem, okay? I think there is huge frustration among the youth.

You and I, uh, spoke during this.

Tushar and I spoke several times during this, um, that 100-meter stretch of road was allowed to take the country hostage.

But there is a lot of frustration and that frustration boiled over.

What is that frustration about? The lack of educational opportunities, the lack of job opportunities as a result.

Legitimizing idiots like these is.

Exactly.

Uh, and petrol is taxed across the world, huh, not just in India.

It's taxed in Europe.

It's taxed in the United States.

It's taxed in Canada.

It's taxed everywhere, so.

But energy security is why we moved to ethanol.

That part I think that if it'll help the people a lot.

But do you like what would the if i was to make you pinpoint even more accurately what are the top five priorities for the indian government for the next two years as far as the automotive industry is concerned because we have to get away from uh fossil fuel right we have to go electric because we have no option as a country

so push out in the spot of good news more car makers bringing in electrics and hybrids because of something called the CAFE norms, which is the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency norms.

These mandate that a car maker can only, say, Maruti is only allowed to produce, I mean, have an average corporate fuel efficiency and emissions of certain amount across their fleet.

Now there are riders and qualifiers over there for small cars.

Maruti wants a rider for small cars.

But electrics and hybrids get some multiplier.

It's a fairly complex math over there.

So then a person would be like, how do we convince people to go to EV from a societal, attitudinal change perspective and what role can the government play in it? This could be our last point.

So at least I don't have any more guesses.

Prashant, what about you? We just barely touched upon what's going on not so far away from India right now.

that's already taking a massive toll on the aviation industry.

I mean, with Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai shutting down effectively, you know, global aviation, I don't know how global aviation is going to pan out for the rest of the year.

Are you going to be confident enough to fly through any of these hubs? Just today, I just saw the story of one of my friends, the tech journalist, Varun Krishnan, who got stuck in Doha.

What an awful experience he had.

The guy has PTSD from hearing the bangs and blasts around Doha.

Kushan, what precedent does this set in India? Can regulators now force leadership changes through punitive action, even if the official line is personal reasons?

uh he could either go back to a European career uh you know maybe Lufthansa or the Lufthansa group I mean uh but that's just uh that out there so we at least I don't have any more guesses uh

what about you you just barely touched upon what's going on uh not so far away from India right now and that's already taking a massive toll on the aviation industry.

I mean, with Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai shutting down effectively, you know, global aviation, I don't know how global aviation is going to pan out for the rest of the year.

Are you going to be confident enough to fly through any of these hubs? Just today, I just saw the story of one of my friends, the tech journalist, Varun Krishnan, who got stuck in Doha.

What an awful experience he had.

The guy has PTSD from hearing the bangs and blasts around Doha.

But whoever gets into the hot seat or wherever even Peter goes or whoever goes, whatever happens, I mean, the fallout of the incidents right now taking place.

Kushan, what precedent does this set in India? Can regulators now force leadership changes through punitive action, even if the official line is personal reasons?

and printer and publisher of the pioneer so abhi look i i want to start kushan by some baseline so i always believe when we do these discussions we start by a baseline assumption that maybe people don't know about the issue so let's steelman the issue itself what are the grouses like what is e20 blending per se what is ethanol blending why is it done what are the potential complaints so let's steel man all of that and then maybe we can get into the other bits

all right so let me talk about it very simply what is uh ethanol as you all know is uh you know c2h5oh the stuff we can put in our systems with alcohol tastes very nice.

But ethanol, as you know, if you've had some of the fancier cocktails at a nightclub or a bar, they can also catch fire.

So it burns.

You produce ethanol or alcohol from grain, you know, whiskey, some malt, you can produce it from a multitude of sources.

And you can also be burnt.

Now, You are mixing it with petrol because ethanol is cheaper, especially if you have a lot of biomass.

petrol.