https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/economy/policy/pre-budget-series-barbarians-at-the-gates-of-education-4824521.html
Pre-Budget-series - III
Please save education from the wolves
RN Bhaskar -- 17 January 2020
Dear Finance Minister:
I write this note both as a journalist as well as a person closely involved with the world of academics. And also as a concerned...
http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/2230114/Free-Press-Mumbai-Edition/06-Jul-2019#page/10/2
More hype, less vision in Budget 2019
RN Bhaskar -- 6 July 2019
The budget 2019 papers have been tabled. And any person familiar with the heartbeat of the Indian economy knows that many of its prescriptions will just not work. ...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/iit-fees-hike-to-fix-the-institutes-its-essential-to-focus-on-the-foundation-2721406.html
The IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) fee hike has highlighted once again the very lopsided approach of the Indian government towards higher education. Much of this lop-sidedness has a lot to do with the vision of the first Indian...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/opinion-russia-could-be-the-next-big-market-for-indian-labour-as-low-oil-prices-depress-the-gulf-3263601.html
Remittances surge, but there is a dark cloud for India's labour
As oil prices soften, there are fears that job creation in the Middle East will decline, and India could lose some workers there.
RN Bhaskar -- Dec 07, 2018
Despite fears...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/judiciary-is-india-a-democracy
Judiciary V: Without good justice delivery and education democracy is just not posible
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar 25 March 2021
S. Jaisankar, India’s minister for external affairs, is not one who is...
Appeared on Pg.55 of the Commemorative Volume "Grand Centennial, Connecting people -- 100th Anniversary of of the Founding of the CPC" Commemorative Volume published by the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Mumbai held in May...
Policy booklets and Research reports can be downloaded from the links given below:
2019 - Where do I study Overseas? Global Perspective on Education
2019 - Gold and its increasing allure for India and the world
2019 - Health Insurance Right...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-inevitability-of-trumpism
Trumpism was an extension of other US crimes of commission and omission
RN Bhaskar -- 10 January 2021
“There is always something that isn’t working … (with) people taking a path against the community, against democracy, against the common good,”
--Pope Francis...
Delimitation of Indian states -- rewarding the Hindi belt
By EAS Sarma
This is a copy of a letter from EAS Sarma to the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, about the dangers of delimitation without freezing the population...
A modified version appeared in https://www.moneylife.in/article/the-fight-is-no-longer-between-the-good-and-the-bad-but-between-the-corrupt-and-the-rapacious/62370.html
The farmer agitation: The fight is no longer between good and evil, but between the corrupt and the rapacious
RN Bhaskar -- 15 December 2020
The farmer’s agitation has thrown up some rather perplexing questions. Unfortunately,...
