Monday, February 2, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/and-silently-flows-the-ganges/1265081 The Ganges remains polluted RN Bhaskar | Apr 26, 2018 07:39 am No other river in India evokes the faith, love and  disgust that the Ganga is famous for.  It is a river than breathes history.  Its banks have hosted towns and...
The ghosts of demonetisation By RN Bhaskar On November 25, the Finance Ministry of India made a surprisingly candid statement before the Lok Sabha (https://www.business-standard.com/finance/news/fake-currency-notes-of-rs-500-rs-2-000-surge-threefold-in-3-years-finmin-124112700867_1.html).  It admitted that the number of fake Rs.500 notes was on the rise.  Effectively, it was...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-contaminates-its-demography Great opportunity; bad demography RN Bhaskar In a brilliant paper by Morgen Housel  (Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Changing The World by, 31 August 2022  -- https://collabfund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/) one comes to learn, indirectly of course, how India has contaminated its...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment_strategic-advantage-verghese-kurien-style_1801912 Strategic advantage, Verghese Kurien style Wednesday, 20 February 2013 - 8:00am IST Updated: Thursday, 9 May 2013 - 4:39pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna   R N Bhaskar India can well become a milk supplier to the world, provided policymakers here...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/on-indias-gdp-per-capita-gdp-debt-and-growth-writes-rn-bhaskar Asiaconverge wishes its readers a wonderful 2023! On India’s GDP, per capita GDP debt and growth RN Bhaskar When elections are round the corner, the tendency to wax eloquent about achievements is at its peak.  Governments, around the world, like to hype...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855 Income tax and the Indian state The government of India finally woke up to the scathing criticism levelled against it by none other than Thomas Piketty in February this year. Piketty talked about how there was tremendous income inequality in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jatin-mehta-files-a-usd-5-billion-suit-against-de-beers-stanchart-and-kroll Indian diamond industry in a tizzy -- Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll RN Bhaskar For most market watchers in India, Jatin Mehta is a renegade, an absconder from Indian law (https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/cbi-files-two-fresh-firs-against-absconding-diamantaire-jatin-mehta-207129-2019-06-11) ,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-how-aadhaarpan-could-threaten-banking-and-financial-integrity Article 139AA has created a big money laundering machine in India RN Bhaskar On 27 October 2020, there was a Twitter chat— “Curious case of PAN-Aadhaar linkage” -- that was organised by the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly (EPW).  It raised...
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. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-the-lure-of-online-groceries-is-growing-stronger-and-stronger Online groceries to witness booming times ahead RN Bhaskar – 16 April 2020 The business of online groceries has been growing at 67% year on year. There are several factors that have propelled this growth.  First, India as a consumption economy. Second,...