Thursday, March 5, 2026

Who will bridge promise and performance? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Picture source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHRpM2iNU   Government engineers and supervisors can be terribly incompetent even capricious. Two data points provide ample evidence of this. The first is how two parts of a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/indias-expensive-solar-power-birth-pangs/ Oct 01, 2015 12:19 am Amidst all the euphoria about India’s tremendous progress in incremental solar power addition, there is a sudden realisation that all is not picture perfect. Not yet. The most painful part is the cost at which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-recession-will-hurt-us-all Can India buck the recession? RN Bhaskar Notwithstanding the pitfalls of forecasting anything these days, my cracked and worn crystal ball sees a global recession occurring in the next year…. Collectively, Europe, the US, and China make up about half of...
Modi warms up to China By RN Bhaskar Image generated through  https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img In some ways, one could say that Prime minister Modi has the proverbial nine lives of a cat. His visit to Tianjin in China this September could provide him a...
The government creates godmen, destroys values, in pursuit of power and wealth RN Bhaskar Last week the police finally registered an FIR (First Information Report, a document which must be prepared before criminal investigations begin) against priest and  ‘godman’ Yati Narsinghanand...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-fertilisers-the-industry-scenario-is-changing-rapidly/1136859 Fertilisers in India is witnessing a transformation — By RN Bhaskar | Sep 14, 2017 07:14 am If there were any doubts about how the next elections will be won, the fertiliser industry provides some good pointers. Some of the policy decisions taken...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/a-reassessment-of-the-carbon-footprint-from-cattle-2 A reassessment of the carbon footprint from cattle RN Bhaskar An extremely important Bulletin was released by the International Dairy Federation in Delhi During the World Dairy Day proceedings (Sept 12-15, 2022). It was titled “The IDF Global Carbon Footprint Standard...
Ram mandir is a great idea, but what about the economy? “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-sibal-s-kiss-of-death-1385602 Thursday, 20 May 2010 The RTE and the foreign universities could ensure the collapse of school and higher education. Kapil Sibal, the Union minister for human resources development (HRD), is a man in a hurry.  That could explain why he has...