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Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/why-protection-from-markets-leads-to-rip-offs-an-example-from-tribal-india-2417491.html When protection becomes oppression – reservation invariably leads to exploitation and degradation in tribal India RN Bhaskar -- Oct 23, 2017 04:33 PM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com When politicians come forward to reserve entitlements for the common folk, they are...

Adani-Hindenburg case: making the waters muddier Mumbai, 20 September 2023 An Asiaconverge report: The intervention application filed by  one Anamika Jaiswal alleging conflcits of interests of  the Expert committee members appointed by the Hon. Supreme Court in the Adani – Hindenburg matter,  ...

http://www.firstpost.com/business/why-did-the-government-continue-importing-pulses-when-domestic-production-was-growing-3430972.html Pulse of the nation - III A story of how pulses imports drove domestic growers to the ground Part I – Introduction. Misplaced fallacies. Part 1I talks about why wheat and rice have grabbed the politician-policymakers minds’.  And how this has...

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget-2018-great-news-on-the-farm-front-if-ground-realities-permit-2497655.html Budget 2018 -- Good farm proposals, but can they be implemented? The need to boost agriculture is understandable. After all, this is the sector that has been languishing for long. RN Bhaskar - Feb 01, 2018 06:42 PM IST The two sectors...

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/more-doles-for-the-needy-will-only-result-in-more-corruption-3838161.html More doles result in more corruption; NYAY and Ayushman could be the biggest of all scams RN Bhaskar -- 18 April 2019 Doles, freebies and giveaways are wonderful electoral offerings (https://www.firstpost.com/business/splurging-money-on-mega-welfare-schemes-sans-planning-not-wise-govt-should-find-a-way-to-make-them-productive-6154241.html).  The marginalized love them. Bleeding hearts welcome them.  But the...

Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/why-the-economic-survey-is-wrong-about-renewables-2390283.html R.N.Bhaskar -- Sep 18, 2017 11:50 AM IST Renewables and the Economic Survey 2017 One of the best examples of muddled thinking that has come to characterize researchers can be found in the latest Economic Survey – pages 119-128 of...

http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-great-indian-irony-farmers-starve-while-politicians-agriculture-income-continue-to-rise-3360212.html Loan waivers, farmer suicides, private wealth and public starvation RN BhaskarMar, 30 2017 16:56:33 IST There is something horrible, almost Kafka-esque, that is taking place in Maharashtra. Politicians across the spectrum have been demanding loan waivers.  When a banker cautions against erosion...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-us-has-just-given-the-eu-a-kiss-of-death The US has just given the EU a kiss of death RN Bhaskar Mikhail Gorbachev died on 30 August 2022 ( he was born on 2 March 1931).  And when he died, there was a confused pain among Russians, and a...

  The dark myths about coal By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image created by Perplexity Someone is keen on setting the entire developing world on fire.  And the flames are being fanned by people who have been clamouring against the use...

https://www.firstpost.com/business/demographics-and-agriculture-ticking-time-bombs-will-union-budget-2022-address-them-10309221.html If Budget-22 does not address demographics and agriculture, it will be a tragic error RN Bhaskar The budget papers should get placed before the Parliament in a matter of a few days from now.  And it is quite possible that the...