Ceasefire talks are fine – But what about Gaza?
By R N Bhaskar
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The world has seen two major ceasefire talks. One has just been concluded between India and Pakistan. The US is believed to have been the...
Why did India choose the UK for the FTA deal?
RN Bhaskar
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On the same day when India launched a surgical strike against “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, came the announcement that this country had finally signed an FTA...
NCERT and education are blighted in India
RN Bhaskar
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In the last week of April 2025, the government funded NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training -- https://ncert.nic.in/) came out with an astounding modification in the History...
Trump has not understood India’s agriculture
RN Bhaskar
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There’s a farmer agitation brewing (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/skm-announces-campaign-against-nda-in-bihar-protests-against-new-labour-codes-vances-visit/articleshow/120492163.cms). J D Vance, vice-president, USA, is being greeted by angry farmers with placards asking him to go back.
Farmer agitations can be extremely widespread, and...
The peril that is Uttar Pradesh
By RN Bhaskar
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Look at Uttar Pradesh from any angle. There is just no way it could have been propelled to become one of the top ten GDP states in India (free...
The growing irrelevance of India on the global stage
RN Bhaskar
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On 6 April, full four days after US President Trump announced sweeping tariffs for all countries exporting goods to the US, Piyush Goyal and his team were...
Education: India gloats, but shrivels under scrutiny
RN Bhaskar
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On April 3, 2025, media headlines talked about how the state government of Maharashtra scrapping the “one state, one uniform” policy. It said that individual School Management Committees (SMCs),...
Maharashtra could soon become part of BIMMARU
By RN Bhaskar
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Is Maharashtra headed in the same direction that Uttar Pradesh has taken for the past few decades? Will it become another addition to the BIMARU grouping causing a...
Linking Aadhaar with Voter IDs without cleaning the bogus ones
RN Bhaskar
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On March 15, 2025, media headlines talked about the Election Commission planning to meet the law and home ministries to work out ways to link the...
The dairy sector could be in for more confusions and value destruction
By RN Bhaskar
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On 3 March 2025, the government’s Press Information Bureau or PIB came up with a very interesting item (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2107807®=3&lang=1). It was titled...
