https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/from-investment-outlay-to-farmers-welfare-five-mistakes-one-must-avoid-while-reading-budget-2021
Budget 2021 has a lot of hype, and does not deal with many fundamental issues
By R.N.Bhaskar -- 1 February, 2021
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All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/
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While the markets are euphoric and people close to the government...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/david-sassoon-the-biggest-wealth-generator-in-bombay-4523271.html
Recalling the legacy of David Sassoon to Mumbai
RN Bhaskar -- 12 October, 2019
To understand more about David Sassoon, one has to go back in history to the origins of Bombay – now Mumbai.
As history books tell it, Bombay comprised...
The dark myths about coal
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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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.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/garware-technical-fibres-could-transform-agriculture-and-fisheries-in-india-3028621.html
Garware Technical Fibres transforms India's agriculture and fisheries
In some coastal areas, GTF has designed nets that actually allow the waves to bring in water and sand, but prevent the waters from carrying back the sand.
RN Bhaskar - Oct 10,...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/bribery-in-india-how-to-minimise-bribe-giving-and-taking-2818398.html
How to control bribery in India
This is the second and final part of a series on bribery. The first part examined a variety of scenarios wherein Indian laws can be seen to be protecting and promoting bribery and corruption....
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-there-are-no-winners-in-farm-loan-waivers-3314251.html
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The pestilence of farm loan-waivers
Farm loan waivers represent bad economics, bad banking and promote the wrong type of social values. They end up hurting farmers
RN Bhaskar – 21 Dec 2018
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/onion-farmers-distress-verghese-kuriens-formula-of-giving-farmers-50-of-market-price-of-harvest-can-help-5662201.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
How to protect onion farmers from distress prices
RN Bhaskar -- December 3, 2018
Social media is rife with the story of a farmer who got just Rs 1,064 for 750 kg of onion. So upset was he with the amount...
http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/2230114/Free-Press-Mumbai-Edition/06-Jul-2019#page/10/2
More hype, less vision in Budget 2019
RN Bhaskar -- 6 July 2019
The budget 2019 papers have been tabled. And any person familiar with the heartbeat of the Indian economy knows that many of its prescriptions will just not work. ...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/traffic-violations-misplaced-sentiments-loopholed-policies-and-sticky-fingers-2448969.html
Traffic violations and misplaced sentiments
Traffic police in Mumbai recently towed away an illegally parked car with a woman inside feeding her baby. Could the cops have reacted differently? And who is to blame? Big questions and answers are few...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-the-cow-jumps-over-the-moon-1810578
The cow jumps over the moon
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 - 10:25am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
India enjoys a major advantage over other countries – it has the largest cattle population in the world. This was partly due...
