https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/uk-continues-to-make-money-from-india
The UK Visa office and its money-making ways
RN Bhaskar -- July 25, 2019
Commerce and the UK were never strangers. Napoleon called this country a nation of shopkeepers. Even during colonisation, the British first came in as a trading company,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/approach-towards-market-regulation-is-headmaster-student-in-india
ANM: Speaking up for brokerages
By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar
Recently, the stockbrokers’ body, Association of National Exchange Members of India (ANMI), raised concern over the proposal to lower the settlement cycle for completion of share transactions to T+1 ....
Why is MIDC silent?
For Part I see here (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2016/07/extortion-land-grab-navi-mumbais-midc-part-i/)
Legally speaking, MIDC (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) properties are ‘notified’ territories. This means that nobody can use any part of this area for residential real estate development purposes, as it is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/budget-2021-banking-and-finance-are-we-putting-the-cart-before-the-horse
Budget 2021 hurts both banking and Atma Nirbhar Bharat
RN Bhaskar -- 09 Feb 2021
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All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/
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The finance minister has been lauded for her decision to create a bad bank and thus clean...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 13-19, 2025
Or does nobody want to stop the music of passing the parcel?
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Global debt (sovereign plus corporate plus household) has grown to $ 315 trillion, more than 3X global GDP. One wondered...
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/between-smiles-and-sorrows-world-bank-forecasts-india-gdp-rise-but-raises-unemployment-concerns-2558785.html
World Bank's fears and expectations about India
The report says that “40 emerging market and developing economies are projected to grow more slowly in per capita terms than advanced economies, failing to narrow income gaps vis-à-vis the group of more...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-problem-of-citizenship-and-slum-votebanks-and-the-work-permit-solution-2570637.html
Citizenship, votebanks, the Northeast and the need for work permits
RN Bhaskar -- May 17, 2018
Last week, the low-hanging clouds burst, both literally and figuratively. Even as rains descended on parts of the Northeast, the whole region rumbled with sounds...
Delimitation of Indian states -- rewarding the Hindi belt
By EAS Sarma
This is a copy of a letter from EAS Sarma to the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, about the dangers of delimitation without freezing the population...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/going-beyond-germany-trying-to-help-other-countries-to-deal-with-paedophilia/1069539
Paedophilia is an ailment that needs treatment
— By RN Bhaskar | May 17, 2017 06:22 pm
Dr. Klaus M Beier was in India in March 2017 (http://bit.ly/2pBWCh1). He is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which...










































