https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/urgent-need-for-gold-reforms
Gold reforms are being delayed. Why?
RN Bhaskar -- 14 November, 2019
Last week, on Nov 5, 2019, this publication, in association with BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) held a conference on The increasing allure of gold.
As discussions continued, each panellist spoke...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/does-anybody-care-for-the-dead/679682
Oct 08, 2015 12:16 am
The Sheena Bora murder brought the issue in sharp focus. The murder of poor innocents, as part of sacrifice to the gods to appease them and to protect the interests of a mining baron...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/options-shrink-but-promise-remains-r-n-bhaskar/1405546
The Indian economy’s options are shrinking, but they’re still there
RN Bhaskar -- 29 November, 2018
The next six months will probably be focused on elections. Planners may not have either the political support or the willingness to deal with serious...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-markets-and-the-economy
Markets and the Indian economy
RN Bhaskar
One could call it bittersweet. There are plenty of reasons for feeling happy, even euphoric. By Friday last week, the stockmarkets had revived – after initially slumping. The BSE Sensex had crossed the 60,000...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/water-tankers-can-make-messrs-vijay-mallya-nirav-modi-and-rahul-choksi-blanch
Water tankers make more money that the biggest alleged scamsters
RN Bhaskar -- 20 June 2019
When it comes to making money, Mumbai’s water tanker overlords could teach Messrs. Mallya, Modi and Choksi a thing or two. Water tankers make more...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bank-mergers-abracadabra-mess-vanishes-r-n-bhaskar/1363483
Bank mergers, LIC and IL&FS: abracadabra! See the mess has disappeared!
— By RN Bhaskar | Sep 27, 2018
There is trouble that is bubbling inside India’s financial cauldron. The three witches cackle, stir their brooms in the broth, and chant incantations that...
Bogus Aadhaar cards imperil both Census and elections
RN Bhaskar
Shri EAS Sarma has responded to this article by writing to the Election Commission. You can find his letter at https://asiaconverge.com/2023/04/india-elections-under-threat/
To appreciate this article better, it is important to take a...
Modi warms up to China
By RN Bhaskar
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In some ways, one could say that Prime minister Modi has the proverbial nine lives of a cat. His visit to Tianjin in China this September could provide him a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-states-amazing-feat-of-de-risking-farmers/1073810
How did Maharashtra manage to de-risk farmers?
— By RN Bhaskar | May 25, 2017 07:27 am
Maharashtra is a rich state where its farmers are poor. And it isn’t because they don’t get loan waivers. Farmers remain poor primarily because they’ve been...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/votebank-politics-northeast-on-the-boil-r-n-bhaskar/1326458
The Northeast turmoil could actually clean up votebank politics across India
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 02, 2018
The Nellie nightmare gripped India on February 2, 1983. Overnight, Assamese tribals surrounded three villages filled with Bangladeshi migrants. They slaughtered some 3,300 people...
