Can the legend of Dr.Verghese Kurien be erased?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image source: NDDB
26 November 2025. It was a day for celebrations. It has also become a day for sadness. It was a day when the country...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-2017-looking-back-looking-ahead/997952
Retrospective 2016 – looking back; looking ahead on e-payments
There can be no doubt about it. If there is anything that 2016 will be remembered for in India, it will be the ‘de-legalisation’ of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes. Popularly referred...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-big-bio-revolution-has-begun-is-india-prepared
The big bio-revolution has begun. Is India prepared?
RN Bhaskar -- July 23, 2020
In 2019, McKinsey Global Institute’s team began researching the huge potential that developments on the bio-technology front held out for the world. To do that, laboratories began...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/should-a-child-become-martyr-for-the-family/
Should a child become ‘martyr’ for the family?
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 03, 2015 12:00 am
Child labour has never been an easy subject to deal with, especially when it comes to developing and under-developed countries. Its origins can be...
Nothing like the sun
India has finally begun to make its mark in solar energy (see chart).
Significantly, as was the case with Germany, solar power costs have been falling year on year. It is worth recalling that it was Germany(http://dnai.in/bj4W)...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/maharashtras-agricultural-woes-will-continue/1475943
Maharashtra and its water diversion
RN Bhaskar – 7 March, 2019
Maharashtra has one of the highest farmer suicide rates in India. It also has the maximum number of farm agitations in India.
And the reason is quite clear if one studies...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-urgent-need-to-tax-agricultural-income/1186437
Taxing agricultural income is sorely needed
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 14, 2017 07:15 am
In November 2017, the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry came out with a white paper on Taxation of Agriculture Income in India.
It makes a compelling...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/gms-needs-polishing-for-brighter-glow/
Gold Monetization Scheme needs polishing for brighter glow
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 19, 2015 12:00 am
It is heartening to see the government pushing the GMS (Gold Monetisation Scheme). After decades, the government has finally become quite serious about mobilising...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-farmers-need-msp-till-commodity-markets-mature-and-become-reliable
For desperate farmers, and broken commodity exchanges, MSP is the solution
RN Bhaskar
Ever since the government backtracked and repealed the three farm laws, there has been a concerted effort to show that the farmers were and remain misguided. That Minimum...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/making-the-poor-even-poorer
Making the poor even poorer
RN Bhaskar
On Independence Day came the news that the finance minister planned to soon review the exemption-free new tax regime with a view to making it more attractive for individual income taxpayers, sources said. Eventually,...
