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The Roadmap for Village-progress & progress-report By: Amit Bhushan Date: 17th Sept. 2018 The election season is on and this time, it promises still more sparkles than earlier. The ‘warring sides’ are discussing ‘development-issue’ with the commercial news media also putting in full-focus...

Data Localization Rules and Debates By: Amit Bhushan Date: 14th Sept. 2018 There seems to be a reasonable anxiety about the Data Localization rules. This seems interesting even if not many in news media would have picked it up as of yet. Sadly, the way most commentators are behaving leaves a...

Growth of the ‘Game’ Cult By: Amit Bhushan Date: 10th Sept.2018 The ‘Game Cult’ in politics is growing. The political parties and Netas are changing colours like chameleon to project themselves adorning the ‘shoes of the Game’. The political themes followed by the parties and the Netas are...

Disruption in Trade and global concern for Toxicity of Asset Prices By: Amit Bhushan Date: 29th Aug. 2018 With Trade Tariffs based protectionism on rise, the hawks of ‘global economic growth’ are busy selling ‘caution’. The reason is that Asset prices are behaving awkwardly in different...

The Trade Tariff noise By: Amit Bhushan Date: 20th Aug. 2018 There seems to be very high amount of noise surrounding ‘Tariffs based adjustments’ in International Trade settings. There is political competition between the Poster Boyz of Free Trade Vs. the Villains. Outcomes being higher costs...

Defining Debates in Media By: Amit Bhushan Date: 12th Aug. 2018 For probably first time in electoral hustling in recent times, is the debate being shaped somewhat by ‘public’ and much denounced ‘social media’. That has been in spite of several political parties, a multitude of Netas and a mix...

News, Logic & Arguments; but where are the relative performance numbers By Amit Bhushan Date: 4th August, 2018 With national elections approaching, the season for debates seem to be coming back. There are lot of logic and reasoning based arguments & discussion. However, the relative...

The Cow Vigilantism and lack of Ground’s up momentum By: Amit Bhushan Date: 10th July 2018 The Vigilantes people have made little ground impact for the sake of development and tried to survive by hemorrhaging society of whatever little moral values, which were still left. While the Netas in...

The Debate on Banking and NPAs By: Amit Bhushan Date: 4th July 2018 The debate on Banks and NPA related issues seems to have become hotter, than previous. This even as such debates remain in print and often on center pages rather on front and idiot box giving this a complete miss. People are...

The News Shows By: Amit Bhushan Date: 1st July 2018 The News media would only attempt to pursue the political party’s line rather than public line. And the ability of the emerging market news media to take a line contrary to media from the more developed counterparts is still highly suspect...

The Global Open Trade Discussions in Redux By: Amit Bhushan Date: 25th June 2018 With Global Open Trade feeling the heat, there of course seem a lot of cries on all sides for its redux. The political villains are being carved out and messiah nations are changing colours often blaming some...

The Opposition and Identity politics By: Amit Bhushan Date: 10th June 2018 The commercial news media loves ‘Identity Politics’, and would do that at the drop of the hat i.e. popping up identities rather than issues. Individualistic Netas are ever ready to fall in this trap, since this may...

The ‘cake’ of Governance in Karnataka By: Amit Bhushan Date: 6th June 2018 The ‘Opposition’ seems or claimed to have mastered the ‘Game’ and ‘all set’ to take on the mighty rulers. According to some of the Netas, ‘Unity Wins’ is the name of the ‘Game’. However, that’s much more than that. The...

The Political agendas and News Making By: Amit Bhushan Date: 31st May 2018 We have various shows in news making as far as the commercial news media would go. A few would focus on rising fuel prices while some others would focus on external security challenge or new project inaugurations, or...

The Karnataka Election Analysis By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd May 2018 One of the key issues with the post-electoral drama is that it helps the Netas to lose any foresight that might have set in. The cut-throat political competition seems to have ensured the same. Instead of questions to some...

The ‘Game’ forecast and Poll Results By: Amit Bhushan Date: 16th May 2018 When public is undecided, the poll results are often complicated. The poll verdict of the people in Karnataka is more a testimony of the same. While the party in power in the state lost its mandate, but no other party...

Refreshing Debate on RTI By: Amit Bhushan Date: 2nd May 2018 When laws & associated machinery don’t have any political ‘my-baaps’, their implementation languishes. Right to Information or RTI is just one of the laws. Having said that it is definitely not any other law, for it catapulted...

Polling Blues - in India’s IT Capital By: Amit Bhushan Date: 1st May 2018 ‘Rationalism’ is better for IT than say a blinded ‘Nationalism’ as is being propagated. And some CMs searching for the awshesh/remains of Internet of the Mahabharata era, may not be such a good thing. These facts are...

The ‘Game’ and Humbling of the Tycoons By: Amit Bhushan Date: 21st April 2018 The reforms in India’s Banking system seems to have caught the attention of the ‘phoren news media’, however its coverage in the domestic News Media seems to be less than adequate. Whatever coverage is there in the...

Judicial Assertiveness By: Amit Bhushan Date: 20th April 2018 The Judiciary seems to be trying to assert itself, i.e. to have adequate breathing space in the face of the Netadom. Some of the signs are quite evident. Its disposal of the much hyped Justice Loya case in the face opposition of...