https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/comment-lessons-not-learned-indias-scams-amount-to-enemy-action-2550399.html
Scams have become India's national pastime
RN Bhaskar
Once is happenstance. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is an enemy action.
-- James Bond (Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger)
The markets are in a tizzy. Believers in a concept called India are dismayed. The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/uncategorized/vpm-trust-chairman-vijay-bedekar-india-needs-a-forward-looking-visionary-in-education/1416360
VPM's Bedekar has big plans for education
written by R N Bhaskar and Jescilia Karayamparambil. December 17, 2018
Thane-based Vidya Prasarak Mandal (VPM) came into existence in August 1935. It has immovable assets of over Rs 12 crore. VPM has...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/current-affairs-trends/opinion-how-our-laws-are-increasingly-undermining-war-against-corruption-2872271.html
Are some people above the law?
Sadly, legislators forget that when laws get corroded either by inaction or through amendments, or through moves that make the collection of evidence difficult, the very fabric of governance gets frayed.
RN Bhaskar -- Aug...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/walk-through-this-model-village-of-china
By Jescilia Karayamparambil and RN Bhaskar
The Yu village model has lessons for everyone
December 6, 2019
While this is a model village backed by development and flourishing ecology; there is yet another interesting concept that the villagers have embraced.
Anji / China:...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/india-china-relations-need-to-be-given-more-time-and-attention-4532101.html
India-China relations - lots of potential there, but . . .
RN Bhaskar – 14 October, 2019
The Modi-Xi talks in Mahabalipuram are over. Officially, the talks have been a success, and will pave the way to better understanding, more trade...
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
From splurge to dirge – this this the future for India?
RN Bhaskar -- Feb 26, 2019
In the few months leading to the general elections, the government has launched least two ‘largest-in-the-world’ schemes. One is the Ayushman Bharat scheme. The...
https://www.firstpost.com/india/meghalaya-mine-tragedy-despite-large-scale-exploitation-successive-govts-colluded-in-concealing-illegal-mining-in-north-east-5857011.html
How successive government colluded in concealing illegal mining – especially in the North East
RN Bhaskar -- 8 January 2019
Illegal mining is like slavery. People can justify them with specious logic – as Karl Popper would have loved to explain...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/atma-nirbhar-bharat-and-healthcare-pushing-a-weak-and-sick-india-into-the-icu
Atma Nirbhar Bharat and healthcare: even health, death and disease are forgotten
RN Bhaskar – 19 May 2020
For policymakers and those seriously concerned about healthcare, a viewing of TedX Gateway Webinar with Dr. Zarir F Udwadia (Pulmonologist) which can be...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/onion-farmers-distress-verghese-kuriens-formula-of-giving-farmers-50-of-market-price-of-harvest-can-help-5662201.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
How to protect onion farmers from distress prices
RN Bhaskar -- December 3, 2018
Social media is rife with the story of a farmer who got just Rs 1,064 for 750 kg of onion. So upset was he with the amount...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/coronavirus-pandemic-slums-are-new-hotspots-that-can-ravage-cities-5090381.html
Coronavirus: the epidemic could easily ravage cities through its many slums
RN Bhaskar -- 31 March, 2020
Last week, the government of Maharashtra formally acknowledged a new problem – slums (https://www.mumbailive.com/en/civic/coronavirus-spreads-to-mumbai-slums-and-chawls-in-ghatkopar-kalina-and-patel-as-4-patients-test-positive-for-covid19-47281). Coronavirus which had spread among the relatively affluent had now...
