http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jan-aushadhi-could-disrupt-domestic-pharma-market/1148447
Jan Aushadhi could be a game changer for Indian pharma
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 05, 2017 08:16 am
This is like many other schemes that the previous government merely talked about, introduced, and then forgot. The Jan Aushadhi (literally translated as...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-storm-clouds-gather-but-indian-punters-fiddle-merrily
Who is fuelling the fire in the stock market?
RN Bhaskar -- 14 January 2021
Indian stock markets are euphoric. Punters are predicting that the Sensex will cross 50,000 before Budget time. And they provide all sorts of reasons to justify...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment_strategic-advantage-verghese-kurien-style_1801912
Strategic advantage, Verghese Kurien style
Wednesday, 20 February 2013 - 8:00am IST Updated: Thursday, 9 May 2013 - 4:39pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
R N Bhaskar
India can well become a milk supplier to the world, provided policymakers here...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-biggest-laundromat-agriculture-r-n-bhaskar/884663
A 100 years' taxes can be found through India’s agriculture laundromat
Is is Rs.2,000 lakh crore or Rs.674 lakh crore, or Rs.199 lakh crore? Any which way you look at it, the figures are disturbingly high! But these are figures...
India’s Budget 2024 and Economic Survey suggest trouble ahead
By RN Bhaskar
The Economic Survey was tabled before the Parliament on Monday 22 July 2024. The next day, the finance minister tabled her Budget proposals. If one goes by the hype...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-headed-for-further-currency-depreciation/1470652
Unproductive spending could easily lead to further currency depreciation
RN Bhaskar February 28, 2019
Turning and turning in a widening gyre//The falcon cannot hear the falconer.//Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold . . . . .
WB Yeats, The Second Coming
The...
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...
Everybody in government likes to talk about solar power, but little more
By RN Bhaskar
The above image has been generated using Bing.
On 24 January 2024, Prime minister Modi announced (https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/modi-launches-new-rooftop-solar-scheme-pradhan-mantri-suryodaya-yojana-9122514/) the Pradhan Mantri Suryodaya Yojana (loosely translated as the Prime...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/good-listening-for-good-governance-r-n-bhaskar/969318
Policy watch
Good listening is imperative for good governance
Rn bhaskar
The present government won a huge mandate from the people of India. One reason was that it promised to bring in good governance. But many people in the government forget one...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-policy-watch-liberate-temples-from-government-control/756036
Policy Watch
Temple trusts hold the key to social harmony
Rabid Hindutva groups have been espousing the “protection” of Hindu values in all sorts of clumsy ways – from beef bans to ghar wapsi. In fact, if these groups really want...










































