http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/and-silently-flows-the-ganges/1265081
The Ganges remains polluted
RN Bhaskar | Apr 26, 2018 07:39 am
No other river in India evokes the faith, love and disgust that the Ganga is famous for. It is a river than breathes history. Its banks have hosted towns and...
The ghosts of demonetisation
By RN Bhaskar
On November 25, the Finance Ministry of India made a surprisingly candid statement before the Lok Sabha (https://www.business-standard.com/finance/news/fake-currency-notes-of-rs-500-rs-2-000-surge-threefold-in-3-years-finmin-124112700867_1.html). It admitted that the number of fake Rs.500 notes was on the rise. Effectively, it was...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-contaminates-its-demography
Great opportunity; bad demography
RN Bhaskar
In a brilliant paper by Morgen Housel (Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Changing The World by, 31 August 2022 -- https://collabfund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/) one comes to learn, indirectly of course, how India has contaminated its...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/comment_strategic-advantage-verghese-kurien-style_1801912
Strategic advantage, Verghese Kurien style
Wednesday, 20 February 2013 - 8:00am IST Updated: Thursday, 9 May 2013 - 4:39pm IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
R N Bhaskar
India can well become a milk supplier to the world, provided policymakers here...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/on-indias-gdp-per-capita-gdp-debt-and-growth-writes-rn-bhaskar
Asiaconverge wishes its readers a wonderful 2023!
On India’s GDP, per capita GDP debt and growth
RN Bhaskar
When elections are round the corner, the tendency to wax eloquent about achievements is at its peak. Governments, around the world, like to hype...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855
Income tax and the Indian state
The government of India finally woke up to the scathing criticism levelled against it by none other than Thomas Piketty in February this year. Piketty talked about how there was tremendous income inequality in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jatin-mehta-files-a-usd-5-billion-suit-against-de-beers-stanchart-and-kroll
Indian diamond industry in a tizzy -- Jatin Mehta files a $ 5 bn suit against De Beers, Stanchart and Kroll
RN Bhaskar
For most market watchers in India, Jatin Mehta is a renegade, an absconder from Indian law (https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/cbi-files-two-fresh-firs-against-absconding-diamantaire-jatin-mehta-207129-2019-06-11) ,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-how-aadhaarpan-could-threaten-banking-and-financial-integrity
Article 139AA has created a big money laundering machine in India
RN Bhaskar
On 27 October 2020, there was a Twitter chat— “Curious case of PAN-Aadhaar linkage” -- that was organised by the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). It raised...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/india/priorities-for-the-govt-war-bihar-or-atma-nirbharta/915423be-fdae-459f-b88d-87399e5db574
Priorities for the govt: war, Bihar, or atma nirbharta?
RN Bhaskar -- July 9, 2020
Politics can be a great distorter of truths because it is often based on optics. And as Henri Bergson said about comedy, it is like froth. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-the-lure-of-online-groceries-is-growing-stronger-and-stronger
Online groceries to witness booming times ahead
RN Bhaskar – 16 April 2020
The business of online groceries has been growing at 67% year on year.
There are several factors that have propelled this growth. First, India as a consumption economy. Second,...
