Price of gold (and silver) is going up recently. The price of gold has risen from under 40,000 rupees per 10 gram to 54,000 rupees in these few months time. Internationally also price of an ounce of gold has breached historic US$2000 level. What is driving prices of gold and silver higher in India and […]
Category Archives: Analysis
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Aug
Aug
For the last several decades, the Indian government has announced one mining policy after another. After each change, ministry officials go around international conferences boasting about how India is opening up. The devil is always in the details. And the details are never thought out. Policies are utopian, unrealistic, distant from ground realities, and based […]
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Jul
Jul
We are entering the last months of the tumultuous year of 2020 and the Covid-19 Pandemic is still with us. As I am writing, the total number of worldwide cases have crossed 15 million mark which actually is nothing, 0.19% of total 7.8 billion world population, when we consider all the hype created around this […]
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Jun
Jun
Covid-19 related lock down is still in place in India in many states. Even after imposing this draconian lock down, the number of cases in India are rising by tens of thousands daily and India is soon going to be on number one spot about Coronavirus positive cases. This should raise an important question in […]
23
Jun
Jun
The great American journalist, essayist, satirist and cultural critic H L Mencken used to say, The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in […]