https://www.firstpost.com/business/maharashtra-farmers-agitation-state-worst-performer-in-irrigation-policymakers-deserve-to-be-put-on-trial-5593031.html
The farmers’ long march to further distress
RN Bhaskar -- Nov 22, 2018
The chickens are finally coming home to roost. Thousands of farmers in Maharashtra have started a long march from Thane to Azad Maidan in Mumbai. Included in this...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/625996/The-Free-Press-Journal-Mumbai-Edition/29-Oct-2015?show=touch#page/10/1
Pending cases and political criminality
— By R N Bhaskar | Oct 29, 2015 12:50 am
There is one question most social scientists have been grappling with for ages – what is the difference between a government and the mafia? After all,...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/low-manpower-land-no-longer-hindrance-to-use-of-solar-power-says-ministry-2828976.html
Better days ahead for solar power
It was perhaps the most candid outline of what lies ahead for the solar power sector in India. Upendra Tripathy, secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, spoke of the big plans that lie...
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...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/govt-plans-to-incentivise-contract-farming-centre-should-encourage-large-firms-to-be-part-of-plan-decision-will-bring-transparency-of-purchases-and-sales-6910021.html
Why contract farming matters – I
Contract farming offers farmers tremendous security, but all's not well here
RN Bhaskar -- July 1, 2019
The government has just announced that it will look at ways to incentivize contract farming. While the details of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-missing-dead-series-part-iii-can-india-be-taught-to-respect-the-dead
The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/06/missing-dead-series/
The missing dead series – Part III
How does one ensure that deaths are recorded dutifully in India?
RN Bhaskar
Last week, he Supreme Court of India chose to reserve verdict on pleas seeking directions...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/goodness-at-the-grassroots
Priti Adani focusses on the grassroots
21 October, 2019
A good corporate enterprise is not just about an organisation with a business plan and one which generates profits. It is also one which touches people’s lives – starting from those who...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/to-prevent-child-sex-abuse-paedophilia-needs-to-recognised-as-mental-disorder/1030860
Interview – Dr. Klaus Beier, MD PhD, Charite, Berlin
Child abuse: Do you like children in ways you shouldn't?
Dr. Klaus M Beier is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which is the biggest University Clinic...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-global-turbulence-and-india
Global turbulence can stun India
RN Bhaskar
Last week, India’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, spoke eloquently about how India will witness close to double-digit economic growth this financial year (https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/fm-sitharaman-says-india-looking-at-near-double-digit-growth-this-year-121101400060_1.html). One hopes this will happen. But such predictions must be taken...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/india-begins-its-cruise-but-it-has-to-navigate-rocks-2374311.html
R.N.Bhaskar - Aug 31, 2017 05:54 PM IST
Cruise tourism: a good start
RN Bhaskar
The task force set up by Gadkari has been able to resolve many of the vexatious issues. The government hopes that many of these issues could be...
