https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/good-governance-begins-at-home-itself
India's problem with governance
RN Bhaskar – 07 November, 2019
In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and to the penalties that could be levied in case corporate governance...
The Election Commission told to be transparent
By RN Bhaskar
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This article is being written on 15 August 2025. It is celebrated as Independence Day in India. And nothing could be more pleasing for Indians than to find...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/
Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am
India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...
Trump’s tariffs could be the worst solution right now.
RN Bhaskar
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On Trump’s tariffs -- “as much as Trump is powerful right now and he seems immensely powerful given the developments of the last one week where the...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-how-sc-upheld-community-s-right-to-manage-funds-1953862
How the Hindus lost control of their temples, gods and culture
In a landmark judgement on January 6, the Supreme Court ruled that no government had the absolute right to take over the management of temple trusts
It ruled that Article...
16 Feb 2026
India faces an exodus of money, people, and values
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Even as Piyush Goyal, Union minister for commerce, continues to be exultant about his New Zealand and EU FTAs and his trade...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/india/priorities-for-the-govt-war-bihar-or-atma-nirbharta/915423be-fdae-459f-b88d-87399e5db574
Priorities for the govt: war, Bihar, or atma nirbharta?
RN Bhaskar -- July 9, 2020
Politics can be a great distorter of truths because it is often based on optics. And as Henri Bergson said about comedy, it is like froth. ...
India is being colonial when it comes to ignoring Asia
RN Bhaskar
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In early 2025, something happened which startled China. It woke up Asia, and then the world.
An ancient tomb was found hidden behind the country's...
Governance: hype, hope, and hell
RN Bhaskar
There is confusion that has gripped many Indians about the fate of the country’s polity and its future.
On the one hand there are eulogies about the enormous potential India holds out.
On the other are...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-russia-ukraine-will-cause-inflation-to-soar-and-currencies-to-tumble
The US gambit with Ukraine and Russia will scorch the entire world
RN Bhaskar
Almost two months have transpired since the Ukraine-Russia-NATO-USA spat began. As mentioned in these columns, this was a war that the US wanted, and got (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/02/ukraine-the-war-that-usa-wants/). It...
