Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we are largely law-abiding, they...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-to-fix-the-slowing-economy-begin-with-agriculture-4810561.html
Pre-Budget #1
Economic revival must begin with agriculture
RN Bhaskar -- 13 January 2020
Another Budget season is just round the corner. The finance minister and even the prime minister are determined to show that they can introduce measures that can revive...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/to-prevent-child-sex-abuse-paedophilia-needs-to-recognised-as-mental-disorder/1030860
Interview – Dr. Klaus Beier, MD PhD, Charite, Berlin
Child abuse: Do you like children in ways you shouldn't?
Dr. Klaus M Beier is a full professor at the Charité, the University Hospital of Berlin, which is the biggest University Clinic...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/the-supreme-court-and-religion-in-india-a-blinkered-perspective-2731538.html
Religion: The Supreme Court can make big mistakes as well . . .?
Editor's note: This is the concluding segment of a three-part series on Hinduism, godmen and the judiciary
The Supreme Court appears to have made the right sounds...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/eye-on-india/videos/tanker-mafia-earning-rs-8000-10000-crore-annually-from-water-biz-in-mumbai-4057001.html
Water series – 3:The stranglehold of the water-tanker-mafia
Other articles in this series are given below:
RN Bhaskar – 3 June 2019
Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra – maybe even the rest of India – is in the grip of what...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/atma-nirbhar-bharat-and-healthcare-pushing-a-weak-and-sick-india-into-the-icu
Atma Nirbhar Bharat and healthcare: even health, death and disease are forgotten
RN Bhaskar – 19 May 2020
For policymakers and those seriously concerned about healthcare, a viewing of TedX Gateway Webinar with Dr. Zarir F Udwadia (Pulmonologist) which can be...
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/breakpoint/the-indian-drip-irrigation-jugaad/17302/1
The Jharkhand Indian Drip Irrigation Jugaad
Netafim has found a solution to cater to the drip-irrigation problems of India’s fragmented farms
by RN Bhaskar | Sep 20, 2010
I n a country of unique problems, the solutions cannot be conventional. Netafim Irrigation...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
May 20-26, 2023
Same old, same old…doesn’t work
One of the weaknesses of the multiparty federal democracy of India is the propensity of politicians to make pre-election promises of freebies, in order to get elected. This is because...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment-there-s-nothing-like-the-sun-by-far-1312617
Solar Power: the great awakening
One has only to visit the main portal of the Desertec Foundation (http://www.desertec.org/en/foundation/) to appreciate the staggering consequences of solar power. Blazoned right at the top is the statement, “Within six hours deserts receive more...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/the-ghostly-organisation-that-should-have-tranIs WDRA a functioning organisation?
Is WDRA a functioning organisation?
R.N.Bhaskar - Aug 07, 2017 01:36 PM IST
The Warehousing Development & Regulations Authority (WDRA) was meant to be a game changer in India. That is why it is perplexing to...
