http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-from-pnb-to-mallya-to-farm-income-india-enables-corruption-2510203.html
Does India even worry about corruption or black money?
Last week most market watchers were left stunned with wide-mouthed amazement. Two developments almost ripped apart the government’s claims that it was determined to unearth black money.
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 17,...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/govts-refusal-to-tax-agriculture-raises-many-questions-it-goes-against-principles-of-equality-3437302.html
Should agriculture be taxed. No says, Jaitely. Why not, say others.
RN BhaskarMay, 11 2017 11:18:37 IST
In the last week of April 2017, Niti Aayog member Bibek Debroy lobbed what could euphemistically be called a hot potato into the lap...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/opinion-the-increasing-relevance-of-gold-3915741.html
The increasing relevance of gold
RN Bhaskar -- 1 May 2019
During the past decade many central banks have opted to purchase gold and shore up their gold reserves. This is in contrast to the previous decade when many central banks...
R N Bhaskar
10 August 2015
The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more. Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/shift-to-cashless-are-mumbai-municipalitys-finance-it-depts-hoodwinking-citizens-3411040.html
Are MCGM’s finance and IT departments hoodwinking the corporation and citizens?
RN BhaskarApr, 28 2017 15:27:45 IST
The government of India is rooting for digitisation and financial transparency. Both are laudable objectives. Almost every government department has been exhorted to enable...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/sustainability-makes-economic-sense-says-accs-ceo-sridhar-balakrishnan
ACC works relentlessly towards sustainability
The sustainability focus for ACC, a subsidiary of Holcim, is on account of two key concerns. The first is that every citizen of this world should leave it a better place for our children than...
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/independence-special-2019/india-in-the-1980s-the-lull-that-shaped-the-storm/54779/1
How the 1980s changed India almost entirely
RN Bhaskar -- Aug 12, 2019
(the pdf version can be obtained from 2019-07_Forbes-India-The-1980s)
Few people realise how dramatically the 1980s transformed India. It was accidental, true. But the change was cataclysmic with tremors shaking...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/coronavirus-in-india-close-precious-metal-commodity-markets-urge-experts
Coronavirus lockdown requires precious metal commodity markets to be closed immediately
RN Bhaskar – 10 April, 2020
Experts in the commodity markets in India have appealed to the government to suspend all commodity trades in precious metals.
This is because hitherto, physical...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2022-why-provisions-for-agriculture-and-the-poor-are-laughable-with-no-attempt-to-reward-the-efficient-10341031.html
Budget2022
Everyone seems to be smiling, but the strains are visible
RN Bhaskar
The Budget papers have been presented before the Parliament. At the time this article is being written actual numbers for education and health are not available. The education budget...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-china-india-steeling-up-the-marketplace-1400885
Steel: China ups production; India ups consumption
There’s a whirlwind of confusion within the Indian steel industry. On the one hand, there is euphoria — demand for iron and steel continues to soar.
And India knows that it, along with China,...
