https://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2022-why-provisions-for-agriculture-and-the-poor-are-laughable-with-no-attempt-to-reward-the-efficient-10341031.html
Budget2022
Everyone seems to be smiling, but the strains are visible
RN Bhaskar
The Budget papers have been presented before the Parliament. At the time this article is being written actual numbers for education and health are not available. The education budget...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
By J Mulraj
Dec 27, 2025- Jan 2, 2026
America plays checkers as China plays Go
Image created using Raphael.app
Checkers, a board game, popular in America, whose aim is to capture the opponent’s pieces or block them. The game is tactical...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/gautam-adani-turns-61-know-more-about-hindenburg-report-changed-indias-business-world
The picture shows Gautam Adani with Benjamin Netanyahu, signing the Haifa Port agreement, shortly after his 60th birthday.
Gautam Adani is 61, and unshaken
By RN Bhaskar
It will soon be a year since I wrote my book on Gautam Adani (Gautam...
9th March 2025
How India’s Judiciary got marginalised
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: CoPilot
On 23 February 2026, media headlines screamed out that the Supreme Court (SC) had pulled up NCERT for introducing, in the class VIII textbooks, a chapter...
An abridged version of this article can be found at
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-solar-alliance-can-match-opec-only-if-ground-rules-are-modified-3027551.html
Can the International Solar Alliance match OPEC?
RN Bhaskar -- Oct 10, 2018
The occasion was the first assembly of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The speaker was Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/comment-the-governments-jobs-problem-is-serious-but-there-are-solutions-at-hand-2567017.html
Yes there is unemployment; but is the government serious about redressing it?
This government, if one goes by CMIE estimates, could create only 1.43 million jobs in 2017. This is contrary to what the government wants to claim
RN Bhaskar --...
MARKET PERSPECTIVE by Jawahir Mulraj
Oct 18-24, 2020
The coming reset
By J Mulraj.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that US Federal Debt would reach $ 20.3 t. by the end of 2020 (US Federal Debt) and also that it would, depending...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/more-doles-for-the-needy-will-only-result-in-more-corruption-3838161.html
More doles result in more corruption; NYAY and Ayushman could be the biggest of all scams
RN Bhaskar -- 18 April 2019
Doles, freebies and giveaways are wonderful electoral offerings (https://www.firstpost.com/business/splurging-money-on-mega-welfare-schemes-sans-planning-not-wise-govt-should-find-a-way-to-make-them-productive-6154241.html). The marginalized love them. Bleeding hearts welcome them. But the...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/gujarat-power-bill-waiver-beginning-of-downward-spiral-towards-bankruptcy-india-needs-to-check-frenzy-of-freebies-5761821.html
Gujarat power bill waiver: a downward spiral towards bankruptcy
RN Bhaskar -- 20 Dec, 2018
Few were prepared for the announcement. On Tuesday, the BJP-led government in Gujarat announced that it would waive off electricity bills of connection holders in rural...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-china-india-steeling-up-the-marketplace-1400885
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, will decide the fate of global...
