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The ‘Game’ Question Politics By: Amit Bhushan Date: 30th Dec. 2016 With the intensification of ‘Game’ politics in the largest state, people may wonder what next. People following the social media may have such expectation as the commercial news media would basically keep itself busy with...

Shyness in Politics-A Good Reason for Trepidation By: Amit Bhushan Date: 2nd Jan. 2017 The cozy club politics is going helter-skelter. Some commentators would depict is as the rise of post-truth polity based on narrow semantics, though. Basically, political sub-groups within some of the...

The Arguments against the Lowest Hanging fruits By: Amit Bhushan Date: 29th Dec. 2016 There seems to be flood of arguments against the lowest hanging fruit for the leadership in government viz. promotion of Cash-less transactions. Why is the option perceived as the lowest hanging fruit is...

The Cash-less incentives By: Amit Bhushan Date: 28th Dec. 2016 The Government seems hard pressed to counter allegations on Demonetization. It has made appoint to press for Cash-less transactions. On this count, it has taken several measures to incentivize users of Cash-less mode. The primary...

Digital & Cash-less: A reversal seems unlikely By: Amit Bhushan Date: 26th Dec. 2016 The political parties are taking political lines with increasing speed in the social media yug to take on rivals while not losing on the timing front. Sometimes this can get stretched to even ignore supporters...

The People’s Campaign By: Amit Bhushan Date: 25th Dec. 2016 For those who supported the Common People’s party, there campaign in the northern state seems dithering and is a cause of concern. It is important to look into their hits and misses from public point of view and allow for some...

Cash-less Drive and Mobile Multi-swipe Devices By: Amit Bhushan Date: 24th Dec. 2016 The Demonetization has brought a sense of urgency to the Cash-less drive in India. The politically difficult initiative needs to be bolstered with drive towards Cash-less, so that the population can feel that...

The Political Slugfest and Political Turning point By: Amit Bhushan Date: 23rd Dec. 2016 We have a rush of discussions on Political opinions especially on Demonetization where there seems to be no dearth of opinions on either side...

Elections in UP By: Amit Bhushan Date: 21st Dec. 2016 With a majority of the pundits in agreement for their readiness to shed the past issues of caste and religion, polls in the largest state are still an open question. Big jostling is ongoing to seek votes from the weakest section with the...

The Intl. terror machines at work again By: Amit Bhushan Date: 20th Dec. 2016 The global terror networks seem to be working overtime and also on an overdrive. The almost simultaneous hit on the Western European financial powerhouse as well as on the Russian diplomat, seem to be baffling. It...

The new Curbs on Old notes By: Amit Bhushan Date: 19th Dec. 2016 The increased scrutiny by RBI on deposit of old currency notes will help to curb the commerce on old notes. What probably is needed is to ensure that all company’s account (including institutions such as non-profit) have a Pan...

Businesses reluctance for Cash-less Payments- Envisaging the new normal By: Amit Bhushan Date: 17th December 2016 The government pressing for the digital payments or cash-less modes, is a welcome step. It would not only ensure a better playing field for all businesses, since those corrupt...

Promoting ATMs over Branches By: Amit Bhushan Date: 15th Dec. 2016 With better supplies of Cash at least in the cities where many people have an understanding as well as brush with technology/ies, perhaps it’s time that the government take decisions that could shorten queues at the branches...

Political Positioning in Era of Appeal & Angst By: Amit Bhushan Date: 13th December 2016 The search for post Demonetization theme for Political leaders to follow, now seems to be on. Especially so since some crucial elections are due. While leaders have just started off with the drive to offer...

Incentives to Government Departments for Cash-Less By: Amit Bhushan Date: 5th Dec. 2016 With the government drive for Cash-less not having much impact, the government is resorting to incentive scheme for staff to promote Cash-less transactions, at least that’s what media would like to convey...

Demonetization debate: How do People get back lost jobs By: Amit Bhushan Date: 1st Dec. 2016 The Commercial news media has made it fashionable to observe queues on the bank branches and ATMs. However the debate of the Aam admi might be lot different. While some of the people might be looking...

The mobile Computing market By: Amit Bhushan Date: 26th Nov. 2016 The advent of I-Pads and Tablets made mobile computing on the go interesting and the segment has grown well. What the growth may have hidden is how much impact it may have really caused to the traditional mobile computing...

Lower Delivered Cost Vs Superior Delivered Value By: Amit Bhushan Date: 23rd Nov. 2016 The global geo-economics and geo-politics tracking is holding itself with bated breath on likely direction of Trading actions & resultant fund movements in the aftermath of the US elections. While for some...

Currency Woes, Personality Politics and the Media’s love with the Caste Equations By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd Nov. 2016 Amid currency woes of the common people, media would not be shy to highlight the (their) favourite Neta’s political speak, howsoever bereft of any tangible suggestions or...

Banking & other Politico-Economic Issues By: Amit Bhushan Date: 19th Nov. 2016 The news media now seems to be pitching & focused on ‘stabilization of banking for the commoners’ as a possible electoral issue for the upcoming polls. With the electoral agents servicing ‘Pani (water)’ and ‘Chai...