India New Zealand FTA - Will this destroy the Indian dairy sector?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Monday, December 22, 2025, almost every Indian newspaper highlighted the India New Zealand FTA deal. The font used was unusually...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 20-26, 2025
A Financial transition, A Geopolitical transition and A Technology transition
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Everyone knows the fairy tale about the transition of a frog to a prince, after being kissed by a princess. The world...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 13-19, 2025
Or does nobody want to stop the music of passing the parcel?
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Global debt (sovereign plus corporate plus household) has grown to $ 315 trillion, more than 3X global GDP. One wondered...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 17-23, 2025
Greed for tax revenue leads to bad decisions
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India’s tax/GDP ratio seems, on surface, to be low, at 11.7% (direct taxes 6.1% of GDP and indirect 5.6%). The ratio is higher in...
Maharashtra could soon become part of BIMMARU
By RN Bhaskar
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Is Maharashtra headed in the same direction that Uttar Pradesh has taken for the past few decades? Will it become another addition to the BIMARU grouping causing a...
"Method to blackmail India": Senior journalist RN Bhaskar on Adani indictment
2024-11-22_ANI_ Senior journalist RN Bhaskar on Adani indictment
2024-11-22_ANI_rnb_Adani_ A Tool for Global Influence_
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https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/3167206-alleged-adani-bribery-case-a-tool-for-global-influence
https://asiaconverge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024-11-22_ANI_-Senior-journalist-RN-Bhaskar-on-Adani-indictment.pdf
https://asiaconverge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/2024-11-22_ANI_rnb_Adani_-A-Tool-for-Global-Influence_.pdf
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https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/headlines/3167525-allegations-against-adani-a-diplomatic-or-strategic-manoeuvre
A Diplomatic or Strategic Manoeuvre_
https://asiaconverge.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/A-Diplomatic-or-Strategic-Manoeuvre_.pdf
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Sergei Lavrov
The US has a history of ruthless blackmail, as was articulated quite...
China develops Africa both as Plan B for itself and for the world
RN Bhaskar
The future of the world will lie in making Africa grow. That is what China has been doing all along. That is what India should be...
The lights are flashing red about the Indian economy, but the merriment continues
By RN Bhaskar
The stock markets continue to soar. Except for a slight hiccup post elections, there seems to be no stopping the inexorable rise. Government spokespersons promise...
EAS Sarma to the Election Commission post 2024 elections
This is a letter written by EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India on 2 June 2024, on the role of the Election Commission and the sins of omission...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 18-24, 2024
Technological disruptions promise huge benefits, but at a cost
It was Victor Hugo who averred that ‘there was no force that could stop an idea whose time has come’. One such idea is robotics. Like...
