https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/comment-the-spinoff-from-swachh-bharat-wealth-from-waste-could-be-big-sht-2556797.html
Wealth from waste could be big shit
RN Bhaskar -- Apr 25, 2018 04:28 PM IST
As against the demand of Rs 25,000 crore for financial year 2017-18 for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Grameen), an allocation of only Rs 13,948.27 crore has...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/free-farmers
Free the farmer from the government and from middlemen
RN Bhaskar -- Monday, December 23, 2019
Agriculture may contribute to just 14 per cent of India’s GDP, even though it engages over 50 per cent of of its working population
India is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/storm-clouds-gather-on-indias-economic-front/1418661
India's economic front could face terribly turbulent times
RN Bhaskar -- 20 December 2018
It is not often that one gets decent data on India’s economic performance. Even annexures to replies to Lok Sabha statements are not available any more. Hence...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/is-fear-of-bankruptcy-forcing-oil-rich-saudi-turn-to-solar-power-wait-for-25-april-2744388.html
The scorching pace of solar power – I
This is the first article of a five-part series. The other articles can be found at
Part II: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/crashing-prices-india-can-gain-immensely-solar-power-space/
Part III: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/india-tremendous-advantage-solar-power-space-money/
Part IV: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/india-not-learn-germanys-hermann-scheer-solar-power-model/
Part V: http://asiaconverge.com/2016/04/you-snooze-you-lose-early-entrant-germany-scores-over-india-in-rooftop-solar-power-scheme-html/
In March 2016, Saudi Arabia stunned the world...
India’ economy is not as robust as the RBI report claims
RN Bhaskar
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) just brought into the public domain its annual report for 2022-23 (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/AnnualReportPublications.aspx?year=2023). As always, economy watchers wait for this...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/amid-the-coronavirus-outbreak-heres-indias-toughest-question-can-indias-slum-dwellers-follow-a-lockdown
Covid-19: India’s agony of slums
RN Bhaskar - March 28, 2020
The sins of the past are to be heaped on the present. And nothing could be more frightening than slums – both for people outside and for those trapped inside. ...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/a-trade-crisis-looms-for-india-and-how-the-sun-and-waste-can-prevent-it-3719921.html
How to avert an economic slowdown and BoP using sun and waste
This article is an attempt to suggest how the worsening balance of payments (BoP) situation can be remedied through sun and waste.
RN Bhaskar -- March 29, 2019
Within the...
https://www.moneylife.in/article/who-is-responsible-for-keeping-farmers-in-bihar-and-uttar-pradesh-poor/64639.html
Poverty in Uttar Pradesh & Bihar is not accidental
By RN Bhaskar
Also read https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fanciful-figures-of-uttar-pradesh/64715.html
The prime minister has often promised that he is determined to double farmer incomes. He was supposed to do this by this year.
But then, like most promises...
Banker, scamster and the hidden hand –making merry with bank frauds
RN Bhaskar
On 3 August, 2018, the government made a disclosure to the Lok Sabha which should make many people sit up and shudder.
The government pointed out that in 2017-18...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/from-sri-sri-to-baba-ramdev-does-hinduism-produce-more-godmen-than-other-faiths-2730658.html
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series on Hinduism, godmen and the judiciary
Do Hindus produce more godmen?
It may sound surprising. Christianity produced only one saint in India — Mother Teresa — during the past three...
