https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-could-bankrupt-the-entire-world-in-a-years-time
The world will burn in the US-Russia-Ukraine oil fires
RN Bhaskar
For people who think that the Ukraine-Russia war will soon get over, and life could go back to normal, there could be a big shock coming. Within six months or...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-russia-ukraine-will-cause-inflation-to-soar-and-currencies-to-tumble
The US gambit with Ukraine and Russia will scorch the entire world
RN Bhaskar
Almost two months have transpired since the Ukraine-Russia-NATO-USA spat began. As mentioned in these columns, this was a war that the US wanted, and got (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/02/ukraine-the-war-that-usa-wants/). It...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-demographics-and-weaponsising-unemployables
Policy watch
Short-tenure recruitment of unemployables in the army will weaponise them
RN Bhaskar
Last fortnight, the government let it be known it was contemplating introducing short term recruitment – of three year tenures – into the Indian army (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/armed-forces-may-soon-recruit-soldiers-on-short-term-contracts/articleshow/90671646.cms?from=mdr). According to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-focus-on-dignity-and-employment-not-distribution-of-doles
Wealth generation and dignity more important than distribution of doles
RN Bhaskar
The finance minister has been singing praises (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/india-kept-extreme-poverty-at-bay-in-pandemic-years-imf-working-paper) for the Prime Minister’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under this scheme, free foodgrain was given away to needy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-unintended-consequences-of-the-ban-on-cow-slaughter
Uttar Pradesh and its cow problem
RN Bhaskar
Yogi Adityanath should be a worried man He has a problem born of his own creation. His state has been one of the most belligerent in its enforcement of the ban on cow...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-fresh-evidence-confirms-agreement-on-limiting-nato-in-russia-ukraine-crisis
Ukraine - The US rings the death knell for global banking and business
RN Bhaskar
This is the way the world ends
not with a bang but a whimper
-- TS. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’
Ever since the Ukraine Russia US conflict...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/ukraine-the-war-that-usa-wants
The Ukraine war may revive the Pearl Harbour bombing of 1941
RN Bhaskar
The war will end. The leaders will shake hands.
The old woman will keep waiting for her martyred son. The girl will wait for her beloved husband. And those...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-can-sebi-pick-up-the-broken-pieces-in-the-nse-chitra-ramakrishnan-case
Can SEBI pick up the broken pieces in the NSE-Chitra case?
By RN Bhaskar
On 11 February 2022, SEBI comes out with an order (No. WTM/AB/MRD/DSA/21/2021-22), authored by which Ananta Barua, Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-this-all-that-a-double-engine-growth-can-achieve-in-uttar-pradesh
Uttar Pradesh: A double engine policy means little if the tracks are poorly aligned
RN Bhaskar
The government is fond of talking about a double engine growth in Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the recently tabled Union Budget, it talked about a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-hydrogen-could-be-the-next-big-energy-source
Hydrogen could become the most attractive fuel worldwide
RN Bhaskar
On 3 February 2022, Japan’s energy agency NEDO, decided to hold a webinar on Hydrogen and the Fuel Cell perspective in Japan. It was one of the first attempts by any...
