https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/high-costs-bedevil-india
Judicial delays, import duties and corruption make business a high cost affair
RN Bhaskar – 11 July 2019
When Prime minister Modi won at the hustings with a thumping majority, there was a resurgence of hope. Maybe, Modi 2.0 would be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/cattle-semen-is-a-big-business-indeed
India becomes a major player in the cattle semen business
RN Bhaskar -- September 25, 2019
Ask Dr. Omveer Singh, managing director of NDDB Dairy Services, and he will tell you that cattle semen production is increasingly becoming a very important...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-future-of-jobs-is-india-prepared/1194784
India is unprepared for the disruption in jobs in the future
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 28, 2017 07:28 am
In the first week of December 2017, a leading legal and consultancy firm, Nishith Desai Associates, announced a webinar on “Will...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulators-3-corruption-is-often-on-account-of-regulatory-processes
Regulatory Games 3: Corruption and regulatory processes
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow
RN Bhaskar
In the first week of September, a news item in a leading...
The govt continues to push other types of Census, but nor for its human population
RN Bhaskar
On 24 JUN 2024, the government announced (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2028221) that it would soon begin work on the 21st Livestock Census. The Livestock Census is conducted...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/five-thriving-myths-about-waste-management
Five things about waste management that we are mistaken about
RN Bhaskar -- September 19, 2019
The last few months, politicians of all colours have begun making all kind of pronouncements about waste management. It is therefore time that someone pointed...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/rn-bhaskar-relevance-of-amul-in-indias-page-part-1/742104
Relevance of Amul in India’s page – Part 1
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 24, 2015 12:08 am
All through the 1980s, Verghese Kurien, the “Milkman of India” kept telling people that this country had a natural strategic advantage with milk...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-invest-in-india-right-message-wrong-approach
Invest in India – right message, wrong approach
RN Bhaskar
Last week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited global funds and businesses -- which have about $6 trillion of assets under management -- to invest in India. He pitched the nation as...
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...
RBI’s unwise dividend payout to the government
By RN Bhaskar
On 22 May 2024, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that it would be paying to the government a whopping sum of Rs.2.11 lakh crore rupees by way of dividend. ...









































