Monday, June 16, 2025
India’s net FDI is a pointer to a deeper malaise By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img On May 23, 2025, media headlines announced (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-net-fdi-crashes-96-5-in-fy25-lowest-on-record/articleshow/121353121.cms) that India’s net FDI had plummeted by a shocking 96%.  This was the lowest it had slipped. ...
The folly of losing friends, influence and money Image generated using https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img By RN Bhaskar In the second week of May 2025, India decided to cancel security clearances for the Turkish company Celebi (https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/turkey-celebi-aviation-india-aiports-13888717.html). It had begun delivering world-class ground handling and cargo...
Ceasefire talks are fine – But what about Gaza? By R N Bhaskar Image generated by https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img 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 Image generated by https://www.bing.com 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 Image generated by https://deepai.org/ 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 Image generated through https://deepai.org/ 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 Image generated using https://deepai.org/ 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 Image generated by https://deepai.org 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 Image generated by https://deepai.org/ 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 Image by Kalpesh Mistry 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...