http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/how-saving-the-cow-comes-with-collateral-damage-jobs-exports-freedoms-votes-2307153.html
Milk, meat, cattle, people – II
Cutting one’s nose to spite one’s face
R.N.Bhaskar, Jun 19, 2017 11:27 AM IST
The first part can be viewed at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2017/06/why-the-cattle-slaughter-ban-is-a-bad-idea-mirrors-another-fundamentalist-streak/
Hopefully, the assurances on the cattle slaughter ban by the government before the SC on...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/banks-npas-non-performing-assets-psbs-foreign-banks-private-sector-banks-restructuring-fpj-imc-forum-rbi-reserve-bank-of-india-ss-mundra-2792866.html
Banks and the NPA problem
S.S.Mundra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) put it quite succinctly when talking about the NPA problem confronting India. Quoting Harold Macmillan, he said, “To be alive at all involves some risk.”...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/commodities/gold-needs-some-very-urgently-needed-policy-changes-4820471.html
Policy changes for gold urgently required
RN Bhaskar -- January 15, 2020
Successive governments in India have waffled on gold policies for long (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/11/urgent-needfor-gold-reforms/). As a result, the entire gold trade was allowed to either go underground, or go to seed.
The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/slcm-does-warehousing-without-owning-warehouses-plans-going-global-as-well
SLCM manages warehousing and more without owing physical infrastructure
Jescilia Karayamparambil | RN Bhaskar
Sandeep Sabharwal, CEO, Sohan Lal Commodity Management (SLCM) group was quick to understand the need for technology in warehousing, procurement and just in time delivery...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/the-great-indian-irony-farmers-starve-while-politicians-agriculture-income-continue-to-rise-3360212.html
Loan waivers, farmer suicides, private wealth and public starvation
RN BhaskarMar, 30 2017 16:56:33 IST
There is something horrible, almost Kafka-esque, that is taking place in Maharashtra.
Politicians across the spectrum have been demanding loan waivers. When a banker cautions against erosion...
https://countercurrents.org/2023/05/delay-in-census-enumeration-unreliable-death-registration-and-fake-aadhaar-cards-adversely-impact-integrity-of-elections-leads-to-misuse-of-public-funds/
Delay in Census enumeration, unreliable death registration and fake Aadhaar cards adversely impact integrity of elections, leads to misuse of public funds
By EAS Sarma
To
Shri A K Bhalla
Union Home Secretary
Dear Shri Bhalla,
The statutory census enumeration exercise, conducted under the Census...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/morality-is-fine-but-liquor-is-quicker-why-opening-of-wine-shops-amid-pandemic-raises-serious-questions
The politics of liquor -- men, morals, Mammon and madira
RN Bhaskar -- 8 May 2020
Last week, the Union government eased the lockdown imposed on the country. It allowed several types of shops to open. But a startling inclusion was...
Xiaomi is shamelessly disdainful about the inconvenience it causes to customers, especially the disabled
Please also refer to https://asiaconverge.com/2023/06/customercare-at-xiaomi-sucks/ which is the first part of this sorry saga.
On 14 June, 2023, I wrote to Xiaomi, informing me about how it...
This article appeared in Business India -- edition dated 23 November - 6 December. It can be found on page nos 78 and 79 of that edition. The pdf version can be got from here 2015-11-23_BusinessIndia_Japan-Financing-structures
In the Goldilocks zone
By...
The 'grade inflation' of our past, which has lead to 'massive unemployability' in the present, could lead to 'economic disaster' in the future, warns RN Bhaskar
There is nothing more tragic than watching a champion stumble—that is how most parents...
