Prassenjit Lahiri

Prassenjit Lahiri is a consultant and senior partner at SFC Asia and Social Friendly Management, specializing in energy, technology, and media sectors. He brings in experience at the intersection of policy, innovation, and communication strategy. As a columnist, he writes on global energy transitions, emerging technologies, and the evolving media landscape.

March 6, 2026

The Data Centre is the New Aircraft Carrier

When a missile strike can knock out cloud infrastructure across a region, protecting data centres must become as central to national security as air defence, energy grids and nuclear command-and-control. At approximately

Barcelona’s Misguided Battle Against Tourists

Barcelona, once celebrated by Miguel de Cervantes as an “archive of courtesy, shelter of the foreigners,” has indeed changed dramatically in the four centuries since he penned those words. This transformation was
July 12, 2024