http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-methane-await-better-days-r-n-bhaskar/889111
Solar & methane: The best days are yet to come
June was a month which actually made many Indians realise the enormous opportunities that lie ahead. Even in these politically turbulent times, India has the potential to trounce disbelievers, and...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/rn-bhaskar-neem-project-the-next-big-agro-revolution/1097354
The ‘neem’ revolution has arrived
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 06, 2017 07:26 am
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi often talks of “Save Water; Save Energy; Save Fertiliser”. By May 2015, in order to prevent the diversion of fertilizers for non-farm...
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...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-india-needs-a-national-policy-on-waste-management-2011519
India needs a national policy on waste management
True, there are other municipalities that have also blundered, but without either a concrete plan, or even a transparent tendering process.
A case in point is the way the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/sodhi-resignation-milk-industry-jolted-writes-rn-bhaskar
Sodhi resignation -- Milk industry jolted
RN Bhaskar
Last week delivered a shock to many in the milk industry. R.S. Sodhi, the senior-most executive of the largest milk cooperative in India accounting for a turnover of Rs. Rs 46,481 crore in...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs
RN Bhaskar
The claims are tantalizing. The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-gold-mining-an-agenda-for-the-government
Gold mining IV
What the government should do?
RN Bhaskar
When it comes to gold, politicians, government officials, media and the general public can be quite misinformed to the point of hysteria.
Consider how – on 21 February 2020 -- an unsuspecting public...
Iran invokes spirits of the great Persian empire
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Iran has become the proverbial ugly-duckling-turned-swan. Its ugly duckling image was a creation of Western media right since the 1950s. This was because...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/lost-opportunities-of-the-textile-editorial-editors-pick-ananlysis-textile-industry-industry-era-r-n-bhaskarindustry/962757
India's textile industry: where does it go from here?
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The textile industry is the backbone of India’s foray into the industry era. It was this sector which actually defined India for a couple of centuries. And it still remains...
