https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-for-farmers-to-make-money-the-government-should-move-out-of-procurement-2830791.html
Farming, politicians and pricing
Why can’t the government benchmark farmer incomes as a percentage of market prices? Why can’t the Verghese Kurien formula be extended to all crops?
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 10, 2018
The Narendra Modi government had declared doubling farmers’...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-to-drink-4082681.html
Water series #4: abundance and penury in India
RN Bhaskar -- 11 June 2019
(Other articles in this series are listed below)
The title lines, taken from Samuel Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could sum up India’s pathetic condition...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/the-electrifying-plan-that-would-create-83-million-jobs-from-solar-energy-2410301.html
Decentralised, cluster rooftop solar could trigger employment growth in India
RN Bhaskar - Oct 11, 2017 04:20 PM IST
The key reason for not creating enough jobs has been the inability of the government’s planners to think out of the...
http://www.firstpost.com/world/euthanasia-debate-right-to-die-aruna-shanbad-india-us-italy-2790572.html
How the world perceives euthanasia
When one battles death at the age of 70 or more, the cause is heroic. But public reaction is a bit restrained. Death is eventually triumphant. Sadly, an old person fighting death, does not look...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/gujarat-elections-how-the-hindutva-beef-ban-may-have-actually-hurt-the-bjp-2463527.html
Beef ban and Gujarat elections results may have a connection
The Bharatiya Janata Party has won an underwhelming victory in Gujarat. And, ironically, one reason the result is a damp squib in this laboratory of Hindutva could be the measures...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/atma-nirbhar-bharat-and-healthcare-pushing-a-weak-and-sick-india-into-the-icu
Atma Nirbhar Bharat and healthcare: even health, death and disease are forgotten
RN Bhaskar – 19 May 2020
For policymakers and those seriously concerned about healthcare, a viewing of TedX Gateway Webinar with Dr. Zarir F Udwadia (Pulmonologist) which can be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/banking-on-liquidity-and-customer-trust-says-reliance-securities-lav-chaturvedi
Interview -Reliance Securities' Lav Chaturvedi
Liquidity and consumer trust matter
By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar -- 26 Aug 2020
Reliance Securities, the broking and distribution arm of Reliance Capital, has been in business for over 15 years now. It has seen...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india/rn-bhaskar-india-russia-friends-for-70-years/1051178
India-Russia ties have strengthened over time
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 12:05 pm
It was in Goa, India, that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi adopted a joint statement ‘partnership for global peace and stability’...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/maharashtras-repeated-attempts-to-shut-down-dance-bars-shows-govts-specious-morality-distorted-priorities-5930611.html
The legislative work against dance bars is specious morality, distorted priorities, waste of public money and the worst type of moral policing
RN Bhaskar -- 21 January 2019
The Supreme Court has struck down the attempts of the state government of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-govt-needs-to-assure-foreign-investors-with-stable-laws-4853971.html
Pre Budget notes #4
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RN Bhaskar -- 24 January 2020
By now, there is no doubt that India is sliding down a slippery slope. Even the IMF recently downgraded India’s economic growth to 4.8% for the coming year (https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/sbi/thread-message-79498903-81298903.html). Privately, economists...
