R N Bhaskar
11 May 2015
The need for an industry-friendly land-acquisition law is underscored when one looks at Sabharwal Food Industries (SFI). This 5,000 tonne multi-commodity cold-storage unit at Kundli, Sonepat, Haryana is unique because its managing director, Anil Sabharwal, decided...
R N Bhaskar
1 June 2015
Ask any veteran who has studied the history of ocean trade in India, and he will tell you that traditionally India has always suffered from sea blindness sickness.
In the past, it was possibly because the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/694252
Pending cases - how the mafia gains legitimacy
There is one question most social scientists have been grappling with for ages – what is the difference between a government and the mafia? After all, both collect protection money, though the...
R N Bhaskar
1 June 2015
On 25 March 2015, the Union Ministry of Shipping announced a revised vision of the Sagarmala concept that Prime Minister Vajpayee talked about more than 15 years ago. Among other things, it introduced – for...
R N Bhaskar
6 July 2015
For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country. True, there were hurdles. Managing the government wasn’t easy. Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
R N Bhaskar
29 June 2015
Australia is in the final stages of concluding a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with India. It also hopes to enter into a nuclear fuel supply agreement with India (Australia is the third largest producer...
R N Bhaskar
15 June 2015
When Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways made his railway budget presentation earlier this year, he spoke of the challenges that lie ahead.
He talked about how the railways are expected to earn like a commercial...
R N Bhaskar
22 June 2015
Timeline: early 1980s. India sees the emergence of a new form of blackmail. A trade organisation, Retail Druggists’ and Chemists’ Association (RDCA), decides to selectively target manufacturers and ‘ban’ the sale of their products from...
R N Bhaskar
13 July 2015
There are signs of gloom. People have already begun grumbling, even accusing the government of causing a slowdown. A major pointer is the dipping flow of investments into India. Is the Indian economy sinking?
Maybe not....
R N Bhaskar
20 July 2015
"Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school. School education is the most enduring way to...
