Monday, May 4, 2026
India's elections under threat (This letter was written as a response to the article as https://asiaconverge.com/2023/04/election-peril-aadhaar-and-the-missing-census/) From: EAS Sarma To Shri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)   Shri A C Pandey Election Commissioner Election Commission of India (ECI)   Shri Arun Goel Election Commissioner Election Commission of India...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE By J Mulraj May 17-23, 2025   Greed for tax revenue leads to bad decisions Image created using Bing   India’s tax/GDP ratio seems, on surface, to be low, at 11.7% (direct taxes 6.1% of GDP and indirect 5.6%). The ratio is higher in...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.htmlhttps://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/india-could-face-a-crippling-water-crisis-in-a-decade-3996961.html Water series-1 (list of the entire series given at the end of this article) India’s rapidly worsening water crisis RN Bhaskar  -- May 21, 2019 The old talk about water wars may not be entirely true today. But in India it could...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/business/atma-nirbhar-doesnt-it-mean-self-sufficiency-and-promoting-honest-ways-of-doing-business/12637a11-2dd0-4d3e-b2f2-a0d8f46de60b Atma Nirbhar for MSMEs -- mixed messaging, little audit, and an encouragement to default on loans RN Bhaskar -- 16 May 2020 A few days ago, Prime Minister Modi outlined details of a Rs.20 lakh package his government had outlined for...
The lights are flashing red about the Indian economy, but the merriment continues By RN Bhaskar  The stock markets continue to soar.  Except for a slight hiccup post elections, there seems to be no stopping the inexorable rise.  Government spokespersons promise...
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.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,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/india-forgot-about-the-water-footprint-4155691.html India forgot about the water-footprint Water series #7 -- other articles in this series are listed below RN Bhaskar – 1 July 2019 In November 2004, UNESCO brought out a series of papers compiled by A.Y. Hoekstra which were aimed at making...
2007-10_DVV-Gautam-Adani_The-man-who-could-change-India-The-Mundra-story Gautam Adani and Mundra - both could transform India Mundra is India's deepest port. It is also an all-weather port which promises to become its biggest and best investment destination RN Bhaskar - October 2007, DVV - Log.in There are moments in...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/maharashtras-repeated-attempts-to-shut-down-dance-bars-shows-govts-specious-morality-distorted-priorities-5930611.html The legislative work against dance bars is specious morality, distorted priorities, waste of public money and the worst type of moral policing RN Bhaskar -- 21 January 2019 The Supreme Court has struck down the attempts of the state government of...