https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-what-aatma-nirbhar-bharat-could-learn-from-the-uss-agriculture-department
Make farmers atma nirbhar. Do what the USDA does
RN Bhaskar – 28 May 2020
The Indian government should carefully study what the US has been doing if it seriously interested in Atma Nirbharta (self-reliance) of farmers.
On April 17, 2020, the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-smuggling-turn-the-spotlight-from-kerala-to-govt-policies
Gold smuggling - I
Part II can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/10/gold-smuggling-ii-a-cleanup-is-urgently-needed/)
A beneficiary of flawed government policies.
RN Bhaskar
There’s an apocryphal story about a man blinded because he stole the gold that he saw lying unattended on the table in his master’s...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-need-to-protect-investments
Protect investments and arbitration; else the economic pain will worsen
RN Bhaskar -- 23 January 2020
The recent reckless remarks against Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s investment announcements have upset the global financial community. The government’s subsequent claim that the remarks were taken...
R N Bhaskar
19 January 2015
Any way you look at it, the horticulture sector is a miracle which Indians seldom think about.
Take production figures first. In tonnage terms, horticulture has already surpassed cereal production. And do bear in mind, that...
De Beers loses big time in the Singapore courts
RN Bhaskar
For many diamond industry watchers, De Beers was always too big a player to pick up a fight with. It has eliminated competition ruthlessly, as the following paragraphs will show. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulatory-games-2-how-sebi-muddies-the-waters
Regulatory games2
SEBI muddies the waters
It’s no go the merry-go-round, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Bagpipe music (1938) by Louis MacNeice
RN Bhaskar
A look at recent developments at The Securities Exchange...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs
RN Bhaskar
The claims are tantalizing. The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...
Is India heading towards a sugar and oil import crisis?
By RN Bhaskar
The Bing-generated image above depicts locusts ravaging a sugarcane plantation, Mercifully, that has not happened in India so far. Instead you have proverbial locusts, which see agriculture as...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-droning-government-and-its-wake-up-call-for-drones
The government wakes up to the urgent need to open u0p the market for drones
RN Bhaskar
You can always count on the Indian government to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (With apologies to Winston Churchill)
Roll...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-awards-india-shaken-and-unprepared-r-n-bhaskar/908045
Policy Watch
Arbitration awards: India learns the high cost of shoddy planning in business and policy
r.n.bhaskar
It is déjà vu all over again. At least three arbitration awards threaten to change the way the country will do business. At stake is...









































