https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/mumbais-penchant-for-costly-and-inconvenient-projects/1396746
Mumbai roots for expensive underground parking
RN Bhaskar November 15, 2018
Last week media reports talked about the new plans proposed by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) to build an underground parking lot at Raosaheb Patwardhan Garden, Linking Road,...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/euthanasia-debate-relieving-a-human-life-from-agony-is-not-himsa-2783646.html
Maharashtra’s misdemeanours
The Income tax data released by the government of India last fortnight has thrown up some very interesting figures (http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855).
Start with the all-India data for the states (ignoring the data for Union territories and for the newly...
China could rebound faster than many imagine
RN Bhaskar
Not a week passes without Western media trying to put out one story or the other about what is wrong with China. But such sneers are not a new development.
They were evident...
Trump’s lies about Venezuela
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image source: Market Watch
January 3, 2026, was a red-letter day – for Venezuela, the US, the world and international law. All of them will now face consequences that will go...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-this-all-that-a-double-engine-growth-can-achieve-in-uttar-pradesh
Uttar Pradesh: A double engine policy means little if the tracks are poorly aligned
RN Bhaskar
The government is fond of talking about a double engine growth in Uttar Pradesh (UP). In the recently tabled Union Budget, it talked about a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/the-nexus-between-pockets-and-the-noose/
The nexus between pockets and the noose
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 21, 2015 12:00 am
Talk of death is there in the air. There is abject apathy in registering the dead; then there are others who clamour for blood and...
Maharashtra could soon become part of BIMMARU
By RN Bhaskar
Image by Kalpesh Mistry
Is Maharashtra headed in the same direction that Uttar Pradesh has taken for the past few decades? Will it become another addition to the BIMARU grouping causing a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/budget-2018-the-spirit-is-quite-willing-but-the-flesh-is-terribly-weak/1214090
Budget 2018 is high on intent, but weak on the underpinnings
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 02, 2018 11:27 am
As Budgets go, this budget could mark a watershed. It has all the ingredients India needs. It talks about ways to...
Great plans for an India-ME-Europe corridor to mimic China’s BRI
By RN Bhaskar
On 9 September, the US While House put out a notification (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/09/fact-sheet-world-leaders-launch-a-landmark-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor/). It informed the world the following: “Today, we the leaders of the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, the...
R N Bhaskar
20 July 2015
"Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school. School education is the most enduring way to...
