https://www.firstpost.com/business/in-easing-agri-markets-and-movement-of-produce-nirmala-sitharaman-has-reiterated-earlier-promises-here-are-seven-more-urgently-needed-reforms-8374021.html
Atma Nirbhar - Agri-markets: A promise here and a promise there, with little in between
RN Bhaskar – 16 May 2020
In terms of outlay, it is not as ambitious as most other schemes. It is only Rs.1.63 lakh crore (see...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/marathwada-drought-the-region-is-parched-impoverished-and-desperate-the-exploiters-turned-into-the-exploited-2715116.html
Maharashtra is a state full of contradictions.
It is a state rife with more inequality than most.
And it is a state where each territory tries to exploit, and ends up feeling exploited.
The cries for water and the spurt in suicides...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/eye-on-india/videos/tanker-mafia-earning-rs-8000-10000-crore-annually-from-water-biz-in-mumbai-4057001.html
Water series – 3:The stranglehold of the water-tanker-mafia
Other articles in this series are given below:
RN Bhaskar – 3 June 2019
Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra – maybe even the rest of India – is in the grip of what...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/ntpc-anchors-strongly-in-turbulence-gurdeep-singh-cmd-ntpc/1113961
NTPC gears up for turbulence -- Interview with Gurdeep Singh, cmd NTPC
— By RN Bhaskar and Pankaj Joshi -- | Aug 02, 2017 01:01 am
The power business worldwide is in a flux and India too has felt this impact at some...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coronavirus-nobody-likes-epidemics-but-dont-demonise-countries
COVID-19 is a global emergency
RN Bhaskar -- 27 February, 2020
All epidemics are terrifying, as they defy man’s capabilities -- of how to cope with them, even if temporarily. They frighten both common folk as well as health administrators.
It is...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/fcra-electoral-bonds-issue-supreme-court-upholds-fair-play-principles-once-again-3724051.html
The Supreme Court takes up the discomforting FCRA and electoral bonds issues and reins in govt arbitrariness
In doing so, the Apex Court re-affirmed the primary purpose of arbitration as ‘de-clogging the Court system.’ The Court held that such a...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/from-sri-sri-to-baba-ramdev-does-hinduism-produce-more-godmen-than-other-faiths-2730658.html
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on Hinduism, godmen and the judiciary
Do Hindus produce more godmen?
It may sound surprising. Christianity produced only one saint in India — Mother Teresa — during the past three...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/how-revolutions-in-india-are-all-about-exploiting-the-poor-2443515.html
Is it a revolution, or the ruthless exploitation of the poor?
It is quite possible that the revolutionaries of J&K have been agitating because they have been asked to agitate. And the fact that the children of rich folk...
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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/budget-2020-fm-sitharaman-proposes-doubling-milk-processing-capacity-by-2025-but-is-it-feasible-4933011.html
Budget2020 - Milk Processing: The government’s arithmetic concerning udders should give you the shudders
RN Bhaskar – 11 Feb 2020
“To build a seamless national cold supply chain for perishables, inclusive of milk, meat...
India is slipping. Here are five steps to restore India to glory
These are articles meant for the government -- on what it should do to prevent India from slipping further into an economic morass.
The first article is just a...
