https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-wrong-diagnosis-and-refusal-to-accept-warning-signals-were-responsible-for-indias-slippage
India's economy - the clock is invariably slow
Ah! the clock is always slow.// It is later than you think
– Robert W Service
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46651/it-is-later-than-you-think)
RN Bhaskar
There was a time when most people had the confidence that the economy would be pulled...
Xiaomi addresses a customer’s grievance
On 7 July 2023, Xiaomi sent to my residence a replacement for the Redmi Lite2 watch that had stopped working.
Under normal circumstances, I would have gone to the service centre as required and got...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/water-usage-lessons-india-should-learn-from-china-4026441.html
Water Series 2: Lessons to learn from China on water management
(Other articles in this series are given below)
RN Bhaskar -- May 27, 2019
The origins of this article lie in what this author wrote in the first quarter of 2009...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-maharashtras-milk-of-human-unkindness-2741051.html
Maharashtra's unwillingness to have a fair policy on milk
It is sad that the state government has not come out with the facts before either the farmers or the public. It must explain why Maharashtra's private dairies and cooperatives cannot...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/how-great-eastern-and-shipping-corp-stayed-afloat-amid-global-challenges-3130771.html
The vulnerability of giants – yet Great Eastern and Shipping Corporation have survived
RN Bhaskar -- Nov 05, 2018
Both companies have been astute in the selection of vessels they own, and have shown tremendous resilience in charting their course during...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/fpj-imc-forum/fpj-and-moneycontrol-forum-doubling-farmers-income-through-cold-chain/1245118
Cold chain solutions will unlock India's agricultural wealth
— By R N Bhaskar and Pankaj Joshi | Mar 27, 2018
t is an irony for India which has a wide variety of horticultural crops, but only a very small portion of its...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/marathwada-drought-the-region-is-parched-impoverished-and-desperate-the-exploiters-turned-into-the-exploited-2715116.html
Maharashtra is a state full of contradictions.
It is a state rife with more inequality than most.
And it is a state where each territory tries to exploit, and ends up feeling exploited.
The cries for water and the spurt in suicides...
The government is keen on strengthening Aadhaar. That will allow it to effectively implement its Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) programme across the country.
But there is a gaping hole in the entire process. India has been counting only its living....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/
Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am
India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/world-dairy-summit-in-new-delhi-is-the-past-being-rewritten
World Dairy Summit forgets Verghese Kurien
Noida, September 12, 2022: The International Dairy Federation had its IDFWorld Dairy Summit in New Delhi (https://fil-idf.org/idf_events/idf-world-dairy-summit-new-delhi/),
beginning today. Over 1500 delegates attended the inaugural address by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Among those present were...
