https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/free-farmers
Free the farmer from the government and from middlemen
RN Bhaskar -- Monday, December 23, 2019
Agriculture may contribute to just 14 per cent of India’s GDP, even though it engages over 50 per cent of of its working population
India is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/indo-china-expert-explains-why-bilateral-trade-rises-despite-border-issues
Indo-China expert explains why bilateral trade rises despite border issues
The trade between the two countries continued to boom despite border tensions following the military standoff in eastern Ladakh in May 2020.
FPJ Web DeskUpdated: Monday, March 13, 2023, 10:07 PM...
Budget 2021
The Budget has been hailed as an "never before" Budget. Unfortunately, it does not live up to this claim. Here are some views by RN Bhaskar
Feb 1, 2021-- Five mistakes one must avoid while reading Budget 2021
(http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-and-myths-surrounding-it/)
Budget 2021...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/israel-water-authority-spokesperson-uri-schor-we-ensure-over-50-of-water-available-is-man-made
Interview -- Uri Schor, Spokesperson, Israel Water Authority
Managing a miracle called water in Israel and the world
RN Bhaskar – September 7, 2019
Few countries in the world understand water as well as Israel does. It has managed to survive and...
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...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/indian-laws-designed-to-protect-and-promote-bribery-all-the-time-2816880.html
Bribery - I - Indian laws protect and promote bribery
The law of unintended consequences seems to be at work again. The government has found that the Finmeccanica helicopter bribery scam has found other unexpected targets. The torpedo deal for...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-petty-graft-could-sabotage-water-and-waste-management-and-even-the-pms-biggest-schemes-4236081.html
Water #10
(Other articles in this series are given below)
Water and waste management are crucial to the the PM’s biggest schemes, but they are being sabotaged
RN Bhaskar -- July 23, 2019
There are three schemes of Prime minister Narendra Modi which...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/comment-why-hydroponics-could-be-the-future-of-farming-2630781.html
India needs to embrace hydroponics urgently
The word hydroponics comes from hydro meaning water, and ponos meaning labour. It is meant to represent the growing of plants in any medium -- sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients, but without...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/ups-job-woes-cm-yogi-adityanaths-slaughterhouse-ban-could-see-painfull-days-ahead-3347442.html
UP's Yogi Adityanath could transform Uttar Pradesh – but not the way to prosperity
By RN Bhaskar
Yogi Adityanath, the new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh -- India’s most populous state, inherits a legacy that could drive the state into greater...
