http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gold-be-made-less-attractive-for-smugglers-en-bhaskar/1101981
Can the government make gold a cleaner, more profitable, business in India?
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 13, 2017 07:16 am
Listen carefully to the words that are constantly being uttered by government spokesmen. They talk about driving black-marketeers to the ground....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/niti-aayog-is-wrong-about-water-desalination
Niti Aayog is wrong to recommend water desalination
RN Bhaskar – August 8, 2019
Last fortnight, Niti Aayog, the national official think-tank, came up with a proposal that -- in order to address the country's water woes -- desalination plants should...
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...
Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we are largely law-abiding, they...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/speedy-dispute-resolution-will-silence-drumbeats-of-jobs/1522321
Job creation depends on speedy dispute resolution
RN Bhaskar -- May 09, 2019
The clamour of drum-beats grows louder. If it was a rallying war cry in 2014 – Narendra Modi’s elevation as prime minister was partly on account of this...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-auction-off-nsel-defaulters-assets-to-restore-investor-confidence-1997111
Monday, 23 June 2014 - 6:30am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA | R N Bhaskar
Liquidate NLEL-related seized assets
The Modi government at the Centre has been talking about making India more investment friendly. That is understandable.
After all, it...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-state-as-slumlord-2068903
R N Bhaskar
16 March 2015
Can a government become a slum developer? The proposition sounds absurd. Governments should be promoting what is legal. A slum is usually a collection of dwellers squatting illegally on property. Governments plead helplessness. Are these...
India witnesses flight of capital and millionaires
RN Bhaskar
The image has been generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img
In a way, this was to be expected. Geopolitical turmoil has resulted in political uncertainty about the future of several economies. Millionaires and capital which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-loses-focus-on-human-capital
Human capital is what India ignores to its peril
RN Bhaskar
Quite often, it is what the government does not want to talk about that defines a nation than what the government trumpets. This is true about the Pegasus affair. About...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/labour-pains-that-threaten-the-government/
Labour pains that threaten the government
— By R N Bhaskar | Oct 15, 2015 02:53 am
The stakes for the government at the centre are growing higher by each passing month. The spectre of unemployment looms larger with each passing month. Almost...
