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/two-measures-that-could-empower-marginal-farmers-land-lease-and-fpos
Land lease and FPOs could benefit marginal farmers
RN Bhaskar -- 15 October, 2020
Time and again, new numbers pop up, reconfirming an old truth – that India’s farmers are in distress. Especially small farmers. A set of figures that is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/chinas-white-paper-on-the-us-tariff-spat
China-US spat threatens global trade
RN Bhaskar – June 6, 2019
In 2017, China trounced Canada to become the second largest trading partner with the US. US-China trade accounted for 635 billion against $582 billion for US-Canada trade.
But then Donald Trump...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-is-encouraging-wage-disparity/
India is encouraging wage disparity
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 10, 2015 12:43 am
Last week there was a huge public outcry from some quarters when the Delhi Assembly passed a resolution allowing its legislators to get a 400% pay hike....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-gdp-growth-isnt-as-good-as-it-seems/1225536
So you thought India's GDP growth is good!
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 22, 2018 08:29 am
In the recently tabled Economic Survey 2018, the government noted that “A series of major reforms undertaken over the past year will allow real...
China's problems are becoming viral news. Is the situation that bad?
RN Bhaskar
The Western world and its allies are in a state of funk. They oscillate between aggression and fear – a kind of collective paranoia seldom seen before. They...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/indias-interests-in-milk-almost-sold-away-to-new-zealand
India's milk interests sought to be sabotaged by bureaucrats
RN Bhaskar – 15 Aug 2019
Milk is one of the most strategically important industries for India. It is one which has spawned Asia’s largest agricultural brand in Amul. It has witnessed...
Inflated views and deflated economy
RN Bhaskar
“When India moves forward, the world moves forward”
“Today's India is leaving behind the mentality of slavery and embracing that ancient glory of art.”
Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, on 28 May 2023 -- https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1927866
Leaders...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-state-as-slumlord-2068903
R N Bhaskar
16 March 2015
Can a government become a slum developer? The proposition sounds absurd. Governments should be promoting what is legal. A slum is usually a collection of dwellers squatting illegally on property. Governments plead helplessness. Are these...
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...
