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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-could-learn-a-lot-from-post-covid-19-spending-patterns-in-china
India must be forward looking, not defensive, as is evident frompost-Covid-19 spending-patterns
RN Bhaskar – 13 August, 2020
After a country has been hit by a pandemic, how should people spend money? Different cultures spend money differently. There are countries where...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-uncertainty-dents-funding-for-steel-1401296
India is upbeat about its growing clout in the global steel industry.
But steel producers are a worried lot. While their plans are big, getting money to finance them has not been easy.
And it is not because banks do not...
China-India Media & Think Tank Forum Held
The CICG Center for Europe and Asia (China Pictorial Publications) hosted the event, partnering with the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences as well as the Department of Political Science and Centre for China...
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...
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/1873228/report-china-and-india-different-perspectives
Within the next two months, one more delegation of senior educationists from India will travel through China, to work out modalities for having student-exchange-programmes between educational institutions from both countries . The initiative is more from the Chinese side...
A modified version of this article appeared at http://chinaindiadialogue.com/dragon-elephant-tango-for-a-better-future
The dragon and the elephant can tango
RN Bhaskar
A modified version of this article has appeared at http://chinaindiadialogue.com/dragon-elephant-tango-for-a-better-future
Last fortnight was full of momentous developments.
First, Xi Jin Ping got elected for a third...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/water-usage-lessons-india-should-learn-from-china-4026441.html
Water Series 2: Lessons to learn from China on water management
(Other articles in this series are given below)
RN Bhaskar -- May 27, 2019
The origins of this article lie in what this author wrote in the first quarter of 2009...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-worlds-best-universities-india-continues-to-slip-rn-bhaskar/940451
Policy Watch
India slips on education: The Times Higher Education World University rankings
Rn bhaskar
Last week, The Times Higher Education World brought out its university rankings for 2016-2017. This is a list that all aspiring universities of the world watch, because it tells students which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-lessons-for-india-from-alibaba-about-ecommerce
Alibaba, ecommerce have lessons for India
. . . but will India be willing to learn?
RN Bhaskar -- 21 January 2021
On December 24, 2020 authorities in China announced that they were investigating the Ant group which owns and manages Alibaba,...
