Friday, May 29, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-pumps-nddb-and-the-birth-of-pm-kusum-2 Solar pumps and water mismanagement -- NDDB and KUSUM RN Bhaskar – 29 August, 2019 The introduction of solar pumps in the Indian market was thought to be the perfect solution for aiding farmers in arid regions with neither electricity nor...
Falling oil prices, remittances and jobs Feb 04, 2016 12:00 am http://www.freepressjournal.in/falling-oil-prices-remittances-and-jobs-rn-bhaskar/771956 Any which way you look at it, non-resident-Indians (NRIs) have done this country proud. With hardly any government support programme, through sheer grit and enterprise, these NRIs have ventured...
The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more.  Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is the accusation that the...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-banks-in-a-web-of-student-loans-and-courts/751626 Banks in a web of student loans and courts — By RN Bhaskar | Jan 07, 2016 02:20 am Last month, the Madurai bench of the Madras High Court ruled that an educational-loan cannot be rejected merely on the grounds that the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/education-matters-thats-why-kejri-matters Education lessons from Kejriwal RN Bhaskar -- 5 March 2020 The recent Delhi elections confirmed one thing – that the formidable election machine Modi and the BJP had built was no match for the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.  Like all...
India must find new ways to cope with global fragmentation RN Bhaskar There is global fragmentation all around.  And India has already begun reconsidering many of the policies it had introduced and was quite smug about.  Two developments of last week...
R N Bhaskar 6 July 2015 For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country.  True, there were hurdles.  Managing the government wasn’t easy.  Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-what-the-fm-did-not-announce Policy watch To ease economic distress, the country needs demand revival, not mere credit guarantees RN Bhaskar News is made when you do something great.  But news is also made when you do something stupid, or something that looks like sensible action,...
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...