http://www.firstpost.com/india/air-indias-descent-after-his-book-was-dumped-jitender-bhargava-soars-again-2794750.html
'Air India's Descent': how it was allowed to crash
Last night was one of nostalgia and a quaint delight. It was triggered by the news reports on the the current chairman of Indian Airlines declaring that the merger between Air...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/pulse-prices-crash-why-its-a-case-of-misdirected-focus-by-the-policymakers-3421912.html
Pulse of the nation - I
A story of misdirected focus, funds and fallacies
RN BhaskarMay, 04 2017 13:49:13 IST
The issue of pulses is high on every politician’s mind. There have been at least five statements on the issue of pulses...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-problem-of-citizenship-and-slum-votebanks-and-the-work-permit-solution-2570637.html
Citizenship, votebanks, the Northeast and the need for work permits
RN Bhaskar -- May 17, 2018
Last week, the low-hanging clouds burst, both literally and figuratively. Even as rains descended on parts of the Northeast, the whole region rumbled with sounds...
EAS Sarma to the Election Commission post 2024 elections
This is a letter written by EAS Sarma, former secretary to the government of India on 2 June 2024, on the role of the Election Commission and the sins of omission...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/sustainability-makes-economic-sense-says-accs-ceo-sridhar-balakrishnan
ACC works relentlessly towards sustainability
The sustainability focus for ACC, a subsidiary of Holcim, is on account of two key concerns. The first is that every citizen of this world should leave it a better place for our children than...
Doing business with the dead?
Those who do not respect the dead cannot be expected to respect the living either. And democracy and elections cease to have any meaning if rampant impersonation and dummy voting is permitted. Remember the brilliant...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/goodness-at-the-grassroots
Priti Adani focusses on the grassroots
21 October, 2019
A good corporate enterprise is not just about an organisation with a business plan and one which generates profits. It is also one which touches people’s lives – starting from those who...
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/how-revolutions-in-india-are-all-about-exploiting-the-poor-2443515.html
Is it a revolution, or the ruthless exploitation of the poor?
It is quite possible that the revolutionaries of J&K have been agitating because they have been asked to agitate. And the fact that the children of rich folk...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-from-pnb-to-mallya-to-farm-income-india-enables-corruption-2510203.html
Does India even worry about corruption or black money?
Last week most market watchers were left stunned with wide-mouthed amazement. Two developments almost ripped apart the government’s claims that it was determined to unearth black money.
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 17,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-praapti-transparency-or-tokenism-you-decide-2606461.html
PRAAPTI looks and sounds good, but could be plain tokenism
RN Bhaskar
Late last month, R.K.Singh, minister of state in charge of power, launched the PRAAPTI app and web portal (http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=179615). The idea was to bring in transparency related to electricity...
