http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-how-sc-upheld-community-s-right-to-manage-funds-1953862
How the Hindus lost control of their temples, gods and culture
In a landmark judgement on January 6, the Supreme Court ruled that no government had the absolute right to take over the management of temple trusts
It ruled that Article...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/setting-up-of-a-world-class-centre-of-excellence-in-maritime-and-ship-building/1190624
CEMS: Training people for the waters
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 21, 2017 07:50 am
An announcement made by India’s ministry of shipping (MoS), in the last week of November 2017, went almost unnoticed by most people in the media. The...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-gordion-knot-where-will-jobs-come-from-r-n-bhaskar/965953
The Gordian Knot: Where will jobs come from?
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 03, 2016 08:07 am
The central government is believed to be getting the jitters. Unemployment rates have soared. New jobs that were promised have not materialised. And...
The Census is needed urgently post elections
By RN Bhaskar
The Bing-generated image about elections suggests many things – the watchful eyes of the lion looms over the election booth. The peaceful wait of citizens outside polling booths. The Ashoka lion...
The ghosts of demonetisation
By RN Bhaskar
On November 25, the Finance Ministry of India made a surprisingly candid statement before the Lok Sabha (https://www.business-standard.com/finance/news/fake-currency-notes-of-rs-500-rs-2-000-surge-threefold-in-3-years-finmin-124112700867_1.html). It admitted that the number of fake Rs.500 notes was on the rise. Effectively, it was...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gst-actually-promote-a-cashless-economy/1459489
GST can even encourage cash transactions
RN Bhaskar February 14, 2019
There’s a restaurant in Ballard Estate in Mumbai which is frequented by many upper middle-class customers. It is one of the few organised sector restaurants that refuses to accept payment...
Derivatives, USA and Armageddon
By RN Bhaskar
In a way, the world has been too gentle with the US. It has allowed that country to play around with other people’s money, to create and abrogate treaties at will, to stoutly deny...
R N Bhaskar
It came in as a thunderclap. In mid-May, speaking at the Business and Climate Conference in Paris, Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Petroleum and Minerals, dropped a bombshell.
He announced that fossil fuels wouldn’t be necessary in Saudi Arabia by...
Mumbai’s traffic police has huge gaps in its service delivery
RN Bhaskar
Mumbai has a glorious record of having an efficient police force. But, over the years, the starch in the upright image of the force is getting crumpled. Even past...
R N Bhaskar
16 February 2015
Cities have their own charm. But each city has its own ugly underbelly too. In India that underbelly is the politics of vulnerability.
The game is played this way. Sell people a dream that the cities...
