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Slum creation is a mammoth scam across Indian cities and towns
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-slum-creation-is-a-mammoth-scam-across-indian-cities-and-towns-2961321.html
Slums: the destruction of democracy and financial propriety
Slum formation and protection is nothing short of demographic tinkering on the one hand, and buying votes...
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Why governments love to corrupt judiciary
2026-03-16
The legislature and the executive have often connived to corrupt the judiciary
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: Copilot
Powerful people feel secure when they...
Straight Talk About the Strait
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Mar 7- 13, 2026
How Blocking a Narrow Strait of Hormuz Can Have a Wide Impact
The US, and its ally, Israel, attacked...
NCERT and the Judiciary
9th March 2025
How India’s Judiciary got marginalised
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: CoPilot
On 23 February 2026, media headlines screamed out that the Supreme...
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Budget-22: The farmer has been betrayed
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/budget-2022-despite-govt-assurances-farmers-feel-betrayed
Budget-22: Has agriculture become irrelevant for India?
RN Bhaskar
As expected, Budget-22 had a lot to talk about farming. But they all amounted to little. Farmers...
Gold smuggling makes our Rupee poorer
R N Bhaskar
February 16, 2014
As expected, smuggling of gold into India has continued. While on paper the current account deficit (CAD) appears to have been...
Maharashtra’s slip is showing
http://www.firstpost.com/india/euthanasia-debate-relieving-a-human-life-from-agony-is-not-himsa-2783646.html
Maharashtra’s misdemeanours
The Income tax data released by the government of India last fortnight has thrown up some very interesting figures (http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855).
Start with the...
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Meghalaya mine tragedy: Despite large-scale exploitation, successive govts colluded in concealing...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/meghalaya-mine-tragedy-despite-large-scale-exploitation-successive-govts-colluded-in-concealing-illegal-mining-in-north-east-5857011.html
How successive government colluded in concealing illegal mining – especially in the North East
RN Bhaskar -- 8 January 2019
Illegal mining is like slavery. People...
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