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The NPAs and its’ Management By: Amit Bhushan Date: 14th August 2017 We have once again the economist of all hues coming out to discuss the ‘issue of NPAs’ of the Public Sector Banks, however the Management of NPAs is seldom discussed i.e. for how long have the Asset been NPA, what other...

GOP and Waning powers to intervene By: Amit Bhushan Date: 31st July 2017 In a democratic set up, when in doubt, approach people. Unfortunately the netas do everything to forget it, because to them it is people’s job to approach them. The Common people’s party followed the mantra in its quest...

The ‘Liberal’ Media’s Revival By: Amit Bhushan Date: 19th July 2017 With the debate about ‘soft power’ and Western dominance of the same, the ‘Liberal’ media (mainly in Europe) is trying to revive hey days of yore. This is most likely to be followed with poking fun and criticism of the...

The “Market Economics”; & Defaults By: Amit Bhushan Date: 13th July 2017 ‘Markets’ often behave in ways that give curious ‘economics’ varied signals. We have case where private sector investments don’t seem to be ‘picking up’. That is in part blamed on the ‘lack of demand’ and over capacity...

The Big Banking Defaulters By: Amit Bhushan Date: 24th June 2017 With some actions proposed now for select defaulters under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, all eyes seem to be on how the NCLT deal would with these large defaulters. Wild speculations about how would it impact ‘politics’ as...

The Opposition Politics-Rag-tag Ideas-part2 By: Amit Bhushan Date: 11th June 2017 Lack of a clear narrative is a huge challenge in this age of hyper-communications. With population now hooked to multiple sources of mass as well as personalized communications, some of the communication...

The Opposition Politics-Rag-tag Ideas By: Amit Bhushan Date: 10th June 2017 The ‘Opposition’ in India seems to have latched out on the Farmer’s agitation making loan waivers, its main plank. In the process, it seems to have spread itself perhaps too thin. No wonder it is seen/perceived as a...

The Opposition and TINA By: Amit Bhushan Date: 4th June 2017 It is becoming a bit fashionable amongst intellectuals to sell TINA (there is no alternative) factor while showering adulations on the Netas in the government. This gains a lot more momentum when the ‘Opposition’ is trying to gather...

The Delivery Question By: Amit Bhushan Date: 27th May 2017 Misplaced political calculations seems to be rising with the passage of time and more indulging netas ably supported by the commercial news media. The government again seems to be in a mood to believe its own rhetoric that everything...

Media Frenzy and Fishermen By: Amit Bhushan Date: 25th May 2017 While media is focused on the Western borders and on the braggadocios, the order of a court to Release Fishermen & some 300 or more, is ignored or underplayed by it. This is while measures like these ought to be welcome and on or...

Digital India & Office/Word processing software By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd May 2017 While the celebrations for great achievements in office is ‘on’, there are still questions that need to be raised and would raise them around Digital India. Which is version of ‘Office/Word processing...

The “Make Huff” and “Military Huff” By: Amit Bhushan Date: 17th May 2017 While there has been consistent criticism in media around Belt & Road, somehow most commentary seems around ‘perceived strategic issues’ only. Very little has been said on why despite low cost labour, the jewelry sector...

OBOR and EU By: Amit Bhushan Date: 15th May 2017 There seems to be a lot of media hype around OBOR. What is broadly portrayed as a network of connectivity projects and energy linkages towards production in Central Asia center going all the way to consumption center in Europe. What is...

‘Activist’ Journalism on TV Channels By: Amit Bhushan, India Date: 18th April, 2017 There are a spate activist ‘news reports’ on TV channels, lately. Issues are flagged around everyday concerns of the ‘common man’ (read Lower to middle-middle class) which may number around some 300-400 million...

The Civic Elections and Parties/Netas in ‘Mortal Kombat’ By: Amit Bhushan Date: 16th April, 2017 The Civic Elections in the Capital seem once again an opportunity for the Netas and Parties to introspect deeply regards there ‘declared stand’ on ‘issues’ and what is ‘practiced’ by them on daily...

For Civil Society to breathe freely, the Civil Society must take control By: Amit Bhushan Date: 12th April, 2017 I am afraid, the topic might be rated controversial by the commercial news media. The reasons is taking control can be interpreted in various ways however what is implied here is...

Clouding of the “Aaloo” Factory & Media By: Amit Bhushan Date: 9th April, 2017 Somehow the message raised at the highest levels to canvass for votes takes an immediate beating, while those issues about which it was said that is ‘just one line’ in the manifesto, gets over-emphasized. What is...

Civic Bodies, Procedures & the Media By: Amit Bhushan Date: 6th April 2017 The elections for corporators in the Capital’s civic bodies seem to have taken curious turns at least for the media, if not for the people. Why is this said is because the commercial news media seem to be focused about...

Itihaas or Bhavishya: Political Conundrum By: Amit Bhushan Date: 2nd April, 2017 We again have the media abuzz under political influence with the voting over in the largest state. A question that remains open for introspection as well as interpretation is ‘What won’ ? It is important but very...

Some Scrutiny of ‘Bills’ at Last By: Amit Bhushan Date: 27th March 2017 Finally, we are having some arguments in the Temple of Democracy even if little. That’s good. Some Netas and parties seem to have become serious in the face of threat that they become totally irrelevant. What was...