https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/yapp-powering-efficiency-and-reliability-in-vehicles
YAPP: Powering Efficiency and Reliability in Vehicles
Our ability to provide the best services to Indian clients stems from the fact that our products are designed, developed, and manufactured in India, says Chen Huazhu, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-missing-dead-series-part-iii-can-india-be-taught-to-respect-the-dead
The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/06/missing-dead-series/
The missing dead series – Part III
How does one ensure that deaths are recorded dutifully in India?
RN Bhaskar
Last week, he Supreme Court of India chose to reserve verdict on pleas seeking directions...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/companies/interview-serum-institutes-adar-poonawala-plans-new-vaccines-and-an-nbfc-2674811.html
Adar Poonawala rides ahead with even bigger plans
RN Bhaskar -- Jul 05, 2018
In 1966, when the Indian vaccine industry was at a very nascent stage, the Poonawala family decided to set up the Serum Institute with a meagre...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/comment-killing-innovation-threatens-to-be-fatal-for-modis-make-in-india-2509453.html
India kills innovation even before it can take root
Governments are loath to provide the funds for skill upgradation. So the upstart from the private sector who has access to technologies is viewed as a threat.
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 16,...
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.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-maharashtra-needs-to-relearn-chanakya
Maharashtra, Stamp duties, and Chanakya
“Just as one plucks fruits from a garden as they ripen, so shall a king have the revenue collected as it becomes due. Just as one does not collect unripe fruits, he shall avoid taking...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-milkmen-in-north-cry-mother-dairy-laughs-all-the-way-to-bank-1667390
Milk imports, farmer distress, and Mother Dairy's profits
RN Bhaskar -- 26 March 2012
Mother Dairy's monthly earnings are anywhere between Rs72 crore and Rs117 crore more than those of rival Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.
For the last three months, Mother...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-there-are-no-winners-in-farm-loan-waivers-3314251.html
Moneycontrol
The pestilence of farm loan-waivers
Farm loan waivers represent bad economics, bad banking and promote the wrong type of social values. They end up hurting farmers
RN Bhaskar – 21 Dec 2018
Raghuram Rajan, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of...
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...
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,...










































