https://www.firstpost.com/india/maharashtras-repeated-attempts-to-shut-down-dance-bars-shows-govts-specious-morality-distorted-priorities-5930611.html
The legislative work against dance bars is specious morality, distorted priorities, waste of public money and the worst type of moral policing
RN Bhaskar -- 21 January 2019
The Supreme Court has struck down the attempts of the state government of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-brace-yourself-for-an-economic-slowdown-3401971.html
A severe economic slowdown is likely to hit India. . .unless
RN Bhaskar – 18 January 2019
The recently released World Bank report on January 8 2019 (https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/31066/9781464813863.pdf ), confirmed what most people had suspected all along. The World Bank estimates...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2019-benefits-quota-skewed-towards-minorities-majority-middle-class-ignored-will-jaitley-remedy-this-5896291.html
Budget 2019
The battering of the middle class
RN Bhaskar Jan 15, 2019
It will probably be a vote on account next month. But the expectations of a decent budget will be kept alive. Hopefully, even for electoral reasons, some of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-indian-railways-is-headed-for-big-trouble-3364721.html
Indian Railways faces tough times in the coming years
Looking at some of Nitin Gadkari's ideas would be a good place to start to fix railways' problems.
RN Bhaskar – 8 January 2019
Senior officials of the Indian Railways recently hauled up...
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.firstpost.com/india/meghalaya-coal-mine-tragedy-exposes-apathy-of-state-towards-miners-as-politicians-high-on-greed-overlook-human-rights-5846681.html
Meghalaya squirms about its coal mine – the exposure is shaming the entire region. Rightly so.
RN Bhaskar -- 7 January 2019
The entire north east of India is squirming. Not just Meghalaya. The spotlights were turned on by sheer accident. ...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/environment/opinion-govt-must-not-look-the-other-way-at-these-rat-hole-mines-3351001.html
The Meghalaya mining disaster shows how the country has woken up again to the proliferation of illegal mines
RN Bhaskar -- Jan 03, 2019
Even as this article is being written, rescue operations are underway to evacuate the 15 miners trapped...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/opinion-govt-missing-he-big-picture-in-its-electric-vehicle-policy-3332341.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
A sad fragmented policy for a rapidly changing electric vehicle sector
RN Bhaskar – 28 Dec 2018
The push for electric mobility charging stations will first be rolled out in cities with a population of greater than 4 million. The rollout...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/india-2019-govt-should-propel-growth-in-infra-renewable-energy-sector-to-ease-unemployment-pain-5803401.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
India 2019: what the future beckons for the country
RN Bhaskar -- Dec 28, 2018
It is ironic that one should be wishing each other a Happy New Year, when most economists are agreed that 2019 could be a very turbulent...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/creation-of-jobs-improving-judicial-adjudication-and-bringing-in-foreign-investment-to-remain-concerns-in-2019-5791051.html
The year that was – dreams, prayers and promises -- jobs, adjudication, FDI
RN Bhaskar -- December 26, 2017
When one thinks of the past year, one must see it as a culmination of the four years gone by – when...