https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-corruption-collusion-and-legislative-filibustering-will-cripple-democracy-2531493.html
Corruption and legislative filibustering could cripple democracy in India
RN Bhaskar - Mar 19, 2018 03:22 PM IST
A major development that took place last week could actually alter the way India functions both as a democracy and as a country...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-the-governments-gold-policies-make-indias-neighbours-richer-and-this-country-itself-poorer-4574121.html
India's gold policies have impoverished the country
RN Bhaskar -- Oct 25 2019
In 2013, P Chidambaram decided to impose a 10% import duty on gold (https://in.reuters.com/article/india-tax-finmin/gold-duty-raised-to-record-10-percent-as-imports-revive-idINDEE97C03J20130813). The finance minister was quite savvy about the way financial markets work.
He knew too...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/shift-to-cashless-are-mumbai-municipalitys-finance-it-depts-hoodwinking-citizens-3411040.html
Are MCGM’s finance and IT departments hoodwinking the corporation and citizens?
RN BhaskarApr, 28 2017 15:27:45 IST
The government of India is rooting for digitisation and financial transparency. Both are laudable objectives. Almost every government department has been exhorted to enable...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/the-killing-fields-that-india-has-become-amid-the-second-wave-of-covid-19
Covid19 -- Who lit pyres on the killing fields?
RN Bhaskar -- 27 April 2021
One has only to see the long queues of people standing outside hospitals. Then one sees the numbers of people who have collapsed by the sidewalks. ...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-indian-private-sector-is-vibrant-never-mind-what-many-others-may-say-2734868.html
The Indian private sector is doing better than imagined by many
Read Part II of this article here.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has just released data on the finances of 237,398 non-government non-financial (NGNF) private limited companies. It shows...
A modified version appeared in https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fight-is-no-longer-between-the-good-and-the-bad-but-between-the-corrupt-and-the-rapacious/62370.html
The farmer agitation: The fight is no longer between good and evil, but between the corrupt and the rapacious
RN Bhaskar -- 15 December 2020
The farmer’s agitation has thrown up some rather perplexing questions. Unfortunately,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-indian-railways-is-headed-for-big-trouble-3364721.html
Indian Railways faces tough times in the coming years
Looking at some of Nitin Gadkari's ideas would be a good place to start to fix railways' problems.
RN Bhaskar – 8 January 2019
Senior officials of the Indian Railways recently hauled up...
APSEZ posts excellent results
Adani Ports and SEZ, H1 FY24 EBITDA jumps 49%, while revenue grew by 26% Y-o-Y
Revenue increased by 26% Y-o-Y to Rs 12,894 Cr during H1 FY24
EBITDA increased by 49% Y-o-Y to Rs 7,429 Cr
...
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.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-inevitability-of-trumpism
Trumpism was an extension of other US crimes of commission and omission
RN Bhaskar -- 10 January 2021
“There is always something that isn’t working … (with) people taking a path against the community, against democracy, against the common good,”
--Pope Francis...
