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The Challenge With-in & in Neighbour-hood and Political Parties By: Amit Bhushan Date: 3rd March 2019 The Challenge in this article is for the policy-makers, both India as well as in its Neighbour-hood. That is, to deal with increasingly assertive ‘liberal majority’, in a democratic or a...

Af-Pak spillover conundrum By: Amit Bhushan Date: 23rd Feb. 2019 The ‘failure’ of people in Af-Pak to liberate themselves, continues to simmer the region, of which sections in India remains to be a victim. The fancy thing is that a small cross-section of political class continues to engage...

The ‘Game’ for Regional Parties-2019 By: Amit Bhushan Date: 6th Feb. 2019 The Regional Parties and their Netas are facing unprecedented heat in follow-up to general elections 2019. The National parties are expanding at a faster clip and it while governments are getting trounced in states...

Aligned and Non-aligned Opposition By: Amit Bhushan Date: 5th Feb. 2019 In the ‘dance of democracy’, every party and it’s Neta wants to throw his/her hat in the ring to take aim for the top job. There is an absence of any competency index for Netas that would measure them against some defined...

Coalition-ary alignments vis-à-vis M&As By: Amit Bhushan Date: 4th Feb. 2019 The political competition amongst key challengers is growing to ‘prove’ that their respective Parties/Coalition is closer to the ‘Game’ line of thinking, which aligns with present-day voters’ thought-process. This is...

Political Choices Debate: Challenges and Counter-challenges By: Amit Bhushan Date: 21st Jan 2019 There seems to be a high-decibel debate in the commercial news media (read tele-news media) around identity politics regards suitability of candidates, parties and coalitions to get people’s vote...

The Agri mess – Consolidation versus Diversity By: Amit Bhushan Date: 13th Jan. 2018 Crocodile tears are being poured over the state of rural economy including Kisaan/Agriculture. This is even when it is this sector which is a prime reason why so many Netas and parties can think of survival...

The Electoral Issues of Larger Parties – Hit & Misses By: Amit Bhushan Date: 12th Jan. 2018 The so called larger parties i.e. ones which have a perceived influence over a larger cross-section of voters are political first movers in this ‘Game Yug’ of Electoral rounds. The parties and Netas...

States and Macro-Economy By: Amit Bhushan Date: 2nd Jan 2019 The states in India are responsible to regulate factors like Land, its usage and taxation on the same. They also have decisive say over agriculture and water-bodies, education, sanitation & public health, mines and minerals etc. The...

Civil Liberties and Belief Systems By: Amit Bhushan Date: 31st Dec. 2018 The political mis-steps of the so self-branded liberal political parties is getting exposed when they argue ‘seemingly in favour of minority belief systems’. The arguments put forth goes on as if to reiterate that belief...

Political Economy; need for Re-look at Tax-break Methodology & Formalization of Economy By: Amit Bhushan Date: 26th Dec. 2018 There seems to be a new hue & cry over Economy as more News-wallahs suddenly realize that this is the new ‘political in-thing’. There is a growing realization about...

The Election Results and Politics Beyond By: Amit Bhushan Date: 12th Dec. 2018 So it is the ‘Economics’ stupid! Instead of this headline following the results of what is widely circulated as electoral semi-finals for India, we have everything else as headlines for today. From the results, it...

The Aggregation Technologies and ‘Amul’ impact By: Amit Bhushan Date: 8th Dec. 2018 ‘Amul’ had had tremendous impact in the rural sector. What it did was to help agglomeration of dairy farmers across rural India for collection of milk. Initially, the linkage was just via liquid milk logistics...

Trying to be Tigers By: Amit Bhushan Date: 24th Nov. 2018 With Idiot Box politics growing, we seem to have a new situation. The Netas are now learning to mimic like some large portraits in efforts to don the mettle. Protecting some turfs is passé. We have a lot of noise from Netas on this...

Electoral Coverage from Bundelkhand By: Amit Bhushan Date: 18th Nov.2018 Electoral coverage by the commercial news media is still leaving much out and guess denizens in social media would therefore continue to do ‘their job’. It is being reported that people living in poverty and neglect by...

Political Batting – a la Dravid’ By: Amit Bhushan Date: 6th Nov. 2018 With electoral bells chiming and some of the results pouring, it only takes a lot of ‘Game’ experience to ‘sense the mood’. Some of political parties and Netas are beefing up their machinery to ‘bat like Dravid’ in these...

The Lack of Debates about Individual Liberties By: Amit Bhushan Date: 21st Oct. 2018 There is this interesting debate regards religious belief on account of judgment of the Apex Court. This is about ‘freedoms’ of religious communities on how the belief should be practiced and has vigorous...

Electorate spectacle & Vendor Wars Date: 12th Oct. 2018 By: Amit Bhushan With the ‘Game’ politics deepening and Netas of all hues and colour joining the growing ‘Game cult’, the idiot box discussions have become interesting and a bit more engaging. The readers of these articles in Management...

Privatization (of Banks) versus Government By: Amit Bhushan Date: 1st Oct. 2018 Even while the media has started to discuss ‘issues’ around banks especially the Public Sector banks, we still seem to be going nowhere. This is because nearly every day new information comes out of still newer...

Indian Polity; the Over-ambitious are generally Humbled By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd Sept. 2018 The movers-and-shakers of Indian polity seem to be behaving askew. This is apparent as we hear maligned argument ‘policy drafted by the other party in power earlier’ which doesn’t help, but the...