Global growth requires much more than GDP and population
By RN Bhaskar
On 9 December, 2023, a senior minister of the Indian government spoke at an industry forum. He exhorted industrialists in the audience to collaborate further with the Government to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/niti-aayog-is-wrong-about-water-desalination
Niti Aayog is wrong to recommend water desalination
RN Bhaskar – August 8, 2019
Last fortnight, Niti Aayog, the national official think-tank, came up with a proposal that -- in order to address the country's water woes -- desalination plants should...
R N Bhaskar
9 February 2015
On 23 January 2014, this author received a letter from the “Court of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities” informing him that his case had been “closed”. He had complained about the railways not being...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/iip-confession-time-and-for-atonement/1526942
Sins of commission and omission find reflection in the latest IIP figures
RN Bhaskar – 16 May 2019
For months the government has stonewalled criticisms about job creation and economic growth. But now there is a grudging admission that economic growth...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/can-evidence-be-kept-alive-indefinitely/
Can evidence be kept alive indefinitely?
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 05, 2015 12:00 am
This is a true story about a couple in Singapore, where the wife is an entrepreneur. Each year, just before festival time, she asks her extended...
Trade requires discussion and consultation. Not unilateral action
RN Bhaskar
The government has been seesaw-ing quite a bit during recent months. Some of them will hurt India in many ways. And there are serious implications for the future of trade and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/major-financial-turbulence-ahead-the-rupee-may-weaken-further
Crisis stations in India as the INR may weaken further
RN Bhaskar
Is India going down the rabbit h9le? The finance minister insists that India’s financial condition is not that bad. That India’s rupee has weakened less against the US dollar...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-epayments-the-government-stumbles-again/1023892
Epayments - several things the RBI and the Cabinet Secretary overlooked
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 23, 2017 08:59 am
Last week, the government came out with two announcements regarding epayments. One was through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The...
India stunts its middle-class growth
RN Bhaskar
Not a month passes by in India without eulogies being paid to this country’s growing middle class. This is important for several reasons. The middle class has purchasing power. The greater the number of...
NINJAs on hire with no education, no income
By RN Bhaskar
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
― Heinrich Heine
The crazed public lynchings and burnings have begun. The depressing part is that they, like many other...
