http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-is-a-global-servicing-hub-for-alfa-laval-products/1117581
Alfa Laval has big plans for India
— By RN Bhaskar and Rahul Nayar | Aug 08, 2017 10:14 am
For over three decades, Anantha Padmanabhan has been serving Alfa Laval at various senior and leadership positions in India, Indonesia and Middle East....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/us-crying-wolf-ukraine-germany-russia-china-involved-in-dirty-cloak-and-daggers-game
Geopolitics
The US is crying wolf: USA, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, China are involved in a dirty cloak and daggers game over NordStream2
RN Bhaskar
For the past week this author has been perplexed by the focussed tirade by BBC and CNN against...
A modified version of this article appeared at https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/zhili-has-become-the-childrens-garment-centre-of-the-world-4700261.html
Zhili has become the children’s garment centre of the world
RN Bhaskar 00 4 December 2019
Today, Zhili town is he largest centre in China for making children’s garments. The town and its...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/ethanol-as-alternative-fuel-why-the-idea-is-bad-and-will-worsen-the-plight-of-sugarcane-farmers-5399791.html
When sugar and ethanol become a bitter curse for Maharashtra
RN Bhaskar -- Ocrtober 18, 2018
Sugar prices have begun to firm up. One story doing the rounds is that the government is finally considering the blending of ethanol with petrol...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/india-china-relations-understanding-history-to-plan-for-the-future
History matters – even in strengthening India-China relationships
GIIS, the Guangdong University Thinktank, in association with JaiHind College, Asiaconverge and the Chinese Consulate in Mumbai held a symposium on "Towards Better China-India Understanding: A Study of CPC Resolution on History".
India...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/meghalaya-coal-mine-tragedy-exposes-apathy-of-state-towards-miners-as-politicians-high-on-greed-overlook-human-rights-5846681.html
Meghalaya squirms about its coal mine – the exposure is shaming the entire region. Rightly so.
RN Bhaskar -- 7 January 2019
The entire north east of India is squirming. Not just Meghalaya. The spotlights were turned on by sheer accident. ...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-great-indian-irony-farmers-starve-while-politicians-agriculture-income-continue-to-rise-3360212.html
Loan waivers, farmer suicides, private wealth and public starvation
RN BhaskarMar, 30 2017 16:56:33 IST
There is something horrible, almost Kafka-esque, that is taking place in Maharashtra.
Politicians across the spectrum have been demanding loan waivers. When a banker cautions against erosion...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/creation-of-jobs-improving-judicial-adjudication-and-bringing-in-foreign-investment-to-remain-concerns-in-2019-5791051.html
The year that was – dreams, prayers and promises -- jobs, adjudication, FDI
RN Bhaskar -- December 26, 2017
When one thinks of the past year, one must see it as a culmination of the four years gone by – when...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-air-india-goes-into-a-free-fall-but-is-nobody-to-be-blamed-1924458
Air-India -- a story of corruption, mismanagement and greed
If one wants to get an inkling of the mess at Air India -- the merged entity of the erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air-India -- do not go to the annual...
Doing business with the dead?
Those who do not respect the dead cannot be expected to respect the living either. And democracy and elections cease to have any meaning if rampant impersonation and dummy voting is permitted. Remember the brilliant...
