India New Zealand FTA - Will this destroy the Indian dairy sector?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: Business Standard
Monday, December 22, 2025, almost every Indian newspaper highlighted the India New Zealand FTA deal. The font used was unusually...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/markets/comment-the-disruption-in-financial-markets-has-already-begun-2602991.html
Financial markets are getting disrupted
RN Bhaskar - Jun 18, 2018
Last fortnight, in a letter that Uday Kotak, managing director Kotak Mahindra Bank, sent out to his shareholders, he talked about three major trends in financial markets.
First, he believed that...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/transformation-of-maharashtra-industry-revitalised-webinar-mahas-goal-of-1-trillion-remains-unchanged-despite-the-pandemic
MIDC confident of achieving a US$ 1 trillion output soon
By Jescilia Karayamparambil - April 5, 2021,
When you are among the best performers, then the expectations around such performers are also high. Thus, when India aspires to become a five-trillion...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/interviews/israel-water-authority-spokesperson-uri-schor-we-ensure-over-50-of-water-available-is-man-made
Interview -- Uri Schor, Spokesperson, Israel Water Authority
Managing a miracle called water in Israel and the world
RN Bhaskar – September 7, 2019
Few countries in the world understand water as well as Israel does. It has managed to survive and...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/crisis-alone-can-make-water-policies-change-4122021.html
Water series 5 – Will water policies in India change?
(Other articles in this series are listed below)
RN Bhaskar-- 21 June 2019
Big crises confront India today. Financially, there are big problems ahead (https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/new-government-will-inherit-unpaid-infrastructure-bill-of-rs-12-4-lakh-crore-3937001.html). There is tremendous anxiety on the job...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/indian-laws-designed-to-protect-and-promote-bribery-all-the-time-2816880.html
Bribery - I - Indian laws protect and promote bribery
The law of unintended consequences seems to be at work again. The government has found that the Finmeccanica helicopter bribery scam has found other unexpected targets. The torpedo deal for...
Slipping standards, poor products, terrible customer care at Helix-Timex-Titan
Titan is a wonderful brand. It belongs to the Tata group. And, yes, this company is known for the quality of its products, and its amazing customer care.
That may be true...
The Supreme Court ties itself up in knots over death with dignity
RN Bhaskar
“A calf, having been maimed, lay in agony in the ashram and despite all possible treatment and nursing, the surgeon declared the case to be past help...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-us-sues-china-how-much-of-it-is-truth
The US sues China – looking through the fog
RN Bhaskar – 23 Apr 2020
The US has finally filed a case against China. This is one of the rare times when a sovereign republic decides to challenge the way another...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/budget-2022-why-provisions-for-agriculture-and-the-poor-are-laughable-with-no-attempt-to-reward-the-efficient-10341031.html
Budget2022
Everyone seems to be smiling, but the strains are visible
RN Bhaskar
The Budget papers have been presented before the Parliament. At the time this article is being written actual numbers for education and health are not available. The education budget...
