https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-falling-education-and-employability-levels-spell-trouble-for-india
Think education and employability, not divisive issues that weaken India
RN Bhaskar
Watch the presentations of some of the leading personalities in India, and you are persuaded to believe that India’s moment has arrived, that it is now unstoppable. Great words,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-diamonds-may-not-be-safe-for-investors-any-more
Diamonds no longer anyone's best friend any more
RN Bhaskar
The last couple of months have witnessed a barrage of advertisements seeking to lure jewellery buyers to diamonds. They talk about how natural diamonds are the safest items of jewellery, unique...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth...
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...
Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we are largely law-abiding, they...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/shrinking-modi-bjp-even-india
When Modi, the BJP and India begin shrinking
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”
— Lin Yutang
RB Bhaskar
Elections for five states are over -- West Bengal, Tamil Nadu Kerala, Assam,...
R N Bhaskar
20 April 2015
Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places
—WH Auden
Can religion influence business? Yes indeed! A good indicator is the decline in cow population in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh....
Cough syrup deaths: Why is India FDA protecting promoters and not common human lives?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image sourced using Perplexity.ai
Had it happened in any developed country, chargesheets would have been filed against India’s drug authorities. Key...
Health issues smothered by wealth concerns - medical education is the casualty
RN Bhaskar
On 22 September the country’s leading publications stated that the National Medical Commission (NMC) had barred Tamil Nadu from adding any new medical seats (https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/nmcs-new-guidelines-may-have-adverse-impact-on-tamil-nadu-experts-101695756143484.html).
The result was...
Policy watch
How good is Maharashtra’s land management?
RN Bhaskar
This is the first part of a two-part analysis of Maharashtra and Sugarcane. The first part can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2023/03/maharashtra-has-a-fatal-obsession-for-sugarcane/
Before one attempts to provide an answer to the question in the...
