Saturday, September 21, 2024
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-state-as-slumlord-2068903 R N Bhaskar 16 March 2015 Can a government become a slum developer? The proposition sounds absurd. Governments should be promoting what is legal. A slum is usually a collection of dwellers squatting illegally on property. Governments plead helplessness. Are these...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-has-begun-to-make-waves/ India has begun to make waves — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 11, 2015 01:11 am There’s a lot going on in media nowadays that makes one believe that India is going downhill. It could be an orchestrated approach to malign the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/can-evidence-be-kept-alive-indefinitely/ Can evidence be kept alive indefinitely? — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 05, 2015 12:00 am This is a true story about a couple in Singapore, where the wife is an entrepreneur. Each year, just before festival time, she asks her extended...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-evidence-be-kept-alive-indefinitely/699237 How delays are allowed to frustrate justice This is a true story about a couple in Singapore, where the wife is an entrepreneur. Each year, just before festival time, she asks her extended family in India to send to her...
R N Bhaskar 6 April 2015 Had the government really been serious about providing affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of society, all it had to do was to look at what Iran has done. If it thought that...
R N Bhaskar 13 April 2015 First, the caveat. This analysis is not meant to hurt the sentiments of any community. It is to present scenarios which should be considered seriously. Now, the analysis. True, India is the world #1 in both milk...
R N Bhaskar 20 April 2015 Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places —WH Auden Can religion influence business? Yes indeed! A good indicator is the decline in cow population in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh....
R N Bhaskar 27 April 2015 Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful trip to three countries. Each of these trips is aimed at achieving two objectives. First, to improve India’s relations with some of the most advanced and...
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...