https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-how-the-new-corruption-law-protects-the-corrupt-and-why-some-bribes-should-be-legal-2802741.html
The government protects bribe takers
The amended law does nothing of this kind. Instead the only amendment it makes is extending the prison term to a maximum of seven years.
RN Bhaskar - Aug 03, 2018
Parliament’s latest attempt to curb corruption...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/fpj-initiatives/the-government-is-destroying-indias-milk-industry
Bypassing NDDB in milk imports will cripple the industry
RN Bhaskar -- 17 February 2020
The trade is clamouring for import of milk power. They say that production of milk has not been as much as had been expected this and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-us-sues-china-how-much-of-it-is-truth
The US sues China – looking through the fog
RN Bhaskar – 23 Apr 2020
The US has finally filed a case against China. This is one of the rare times when a sovereign republic decides to challenge the way another...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-off-the-book-e-payments-to-government-bodies-open-the-door-to-huge-scams-2382859.html
Games government-owned corporations play with off-the-book epayments
RN Bhaskar - Sep 08, 2017 04:28 PM IST
The Prime Minister has constantly been reminding people that he wants to promote a cashless society. The theory is that with a more transparent...
Vistara's terrible ground service in Bengaluru
Email sent to Vistara on 15 September, 2020
Full conversation can be found here at 2020-10-04_Gmail-Complaint about your wheel chair facility
On 8 October 2020 the company finally apologised and sent in this explanation (2020-10-08_Vistara_Gmail_apology-explanation). But...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/comment-what-makes-madhya-pradesh-tick-2583155.html
Madhya Pradesh economy snapshot
During the past 12 years, ever since Shivraj Singh Chauhan became the MP chief minister in 2005, the state has witnessed a blistering pace of growth in agriculture
RN Bhaskar -- Jun 05, 2018
Some 15 years ago,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-two-villages-harnessed-solar-pumps-to-create-incomes-for-farmers-conserve-groundwater-4381161.html
Harnessing solar pumps to create additional incomes for farmers
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 28, 2019
This is a story of a brilliant concept that NDDB came up with – along the state power distribution company (discom) – which has become a...
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.freepressjournal.in/business/india-and-sweden-trying-to-take-their-sambandh-to-next-level/1117582
India-Sweden ties to grow stronger
— By Rahul Nayar and R N Bhaskar | Aug 08, 2017 09:44 am
Shortly after India’s independence in 1947, Sweden recognised India as an independent country, following which both Sweden and India established formal diplomatic relations...
Without justice India cannot progress
Part 1
The judiciary’s fabric is frayed, thanks primarily to the government . . .
Why should legislators and bureaucrats have longer tenures than judges? It should be the other way around. Are judicial vacancies a way...
