https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/of-men-morals-and-madira-is-the-government-doing-enough-to-tackle-the-liquor-shop-issue
Covid-19 – of men, morals, madira and home delivery
RN Bhaskar -- 14 May, 2020
This article must be read alongside another written for FPJ last week (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/morality-is-fine-but-liquor-is-quicker-why-opening-of-wine-shops-amid-pandemic-raises-serious-questions). At that time, there were indications that Maharashtra would lift the lockdown for...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/nothing-is-quiet-on-the-farm-loan-waiver-front/1433503
The farm loan waiver front is getting messier
RN Bhaskar -- January 10, 2019
Fiscal discipline threatens to go entirely haywire – at least where some states are concerned.
And it has come in the form of farm-loan waivers. This author has...
The govt continues to push other types of Census, but nor for its human population
RN Bhaskar
On 24 JUN 2024, the government announced (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2028221) that it would soon begin work on the 21st Livestock Census. The Livestock Census is conducted...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/the-nexus-between-pockets-and-the-noose/
The nexus between pockets and the noose
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 21, 2015 12:00 am
Talk of death is there in the air. There is abject apathy in registering the dead; then there are others who clamour for blood and...
16 Feb 2026
India faces an exodus of money, people, and values
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: Gemini
Even as Piyush Goyal, Union minister for commerce, continues to be exultant about his New Zealand and EU FTAs and his trade...
What US magic will be on display after 20 January 2025?
RN Bhaskar
Picture from https://www.canva.com/
The countdown has begun. The world watches with bated breath. All eyes are on the US. What will it do after January 20, when Trump assumes...
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...
R N Bhaskar
13 July 2015
There are signs of gloom. People have already begun grumbling, even accusing the government of causing a slowdown. A major pointer is the dipping flow of investments into India. Is the Indian economy sinking?
Maybe not....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/cattle-semen-is-a-big-business-indeed
India becomes a major player in the cattle semen business
RN Bhaskar -- September 25, 2019
Ask Dr. Omveer Singh, managing director of NDDB Dairy Services, and he will tell you that cattle semen production is increasingly becoming a very important...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-is-encouraging-wage-disparity/
India is encouraging wage disparity
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 10, 2015 12:43 am
Last week there was a huge public outcry from some quarters when the Delhi Assembly passed a resolution allowing its legislators to get a 400% pay hike....
