Sunday, January 19, 2025
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,...
New Blueprint, New Opportunities By Guocai Tang, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Mumbai Views expressed here are personal 2020 is a year of outstanding challenges and has a far-reaching impact in human history. Towards the end of the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/approach-towards-market-regulation-is-headmaster-student-in-india ANM: Speaking up for brokerages By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar Recently, the stockbrokers’ body, Association of National Exchange Members of India (ANMI), raised concern over the proposal to lower the settlement cycle for completion of share transactions to T+1 ....
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-double-vision-of-the-guys-at-rbi The RBI's fragmented and flawed vision If keeping eyes closed is also considered, the RBI has three visions RN Bhaskar -- 24 November 2020 The people at RBI suffer from a double vision.  At times they do good, even amazing, things.  But...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/not-having-ip-protection-is-a-barrier-for-innovation-says-bert-van-der-feltz-ceo-of-east-west-seed-group Interview: India is the world's second largest market for vegetables -- Bert van der Feltz By Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar - 29 October, 2020 In 2005, Bert van der Feltz (Bert), President and CEO of the East-West Seed Group along with...
India's Achilles' heel is dispute resolution Lecture delivered on Oct 28, 2020 https://youtu.be/89q-5cBOKzg May be viewed in conjunction with other articles like Speedy dispute resolution will silence drumbeats of jobs Effective dispute resolution needed for increase in FD! Judiciary part IV: Can India hope for...

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.freepressjournal.in/featured-blog/a-humane-approach-through-bandicoots K Rashid wants to end the scourge of manual scavenging The journey of ‘Bandicoot’ started in 2016 after the four engineering students (founders) heard that three people lost their lives in a span of 20 minutes after falling into a...
Vistara's terrible ground service in Bengaluru Email sent to Vistara on 15 September, 2020 Full conversation can be found here at 2020-10-04_Gmail-Complaint about your wheel chair facility On 8 October 2020 the company finally apologised and sent in this explanation (2020-10-08_Vistara_Gmail_apology-explanation). But...

How India was plundered, again and again Part I – http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/08/government-plunder-productive-states-in-india/ Part II – http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-again-by-tweaking-rules-against-prosperous-states-and-encouraging-profloigacy-irresponsibility/ Part III — http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-iii-through-tax-devolution-and-transfgers/ Part IV — http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/indian-governments-outdid-aurangzeb-they-emasculated-hindu-temples/ Part V :  http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/india-plundered-v-many-ways-plundering-india/ ——————————————