https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/what-about-the-battery-charging-policy-2
Has the government forgotten about battery swapping?
RN Bhaskar – September 12, 2019
When the government announced its plans to usher in electric vehicles (EVs), it was jumping the gun. It should have worked on a battery policy first. Why?
The following...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/recounting-the-great-indian-bank-robbery-rn-bhaskar/789412
Recounting the great Indian bank robbery
Feb 25, 2016 02:13 am
The biggest players, goes a common saying, are often the most shameless. This was reinforced when data came rolling out of the presentations made last fortnight by S.S.Mundhra, deputy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-farmers-need-msp-till-commodity-markets-mature-and-become-reliable
For desperate farmers, and broken commodity exchanges, MSP is the solution
RN Bhaskar
Ever since the government backtracked and repealed the three farm laws, there has been a concerted effort to show that the farmers were and remain misguided. That Minimum...
Reinsurance and the dangers for India
RN Bhaskar
Reinsurance markets are in a state of confusion. They cannot comprehend what could have driven the IRDAI (an acronym for Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India -- https://irdai.gov.in/) to come up with...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/do-more-with-global-private-investment/1409946
India could do with a lot more of global private investment
RN Bhaskar December 6, 2018
India, like the rest of the world, has begun witnessing the growing role of private equity and investment players in this country. On the one...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_a-great-deal-of-gas-to-harness_1807789
A great deal of gas to harness
Wednesday, 6 March 2013 - 8:33am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
R N Bhaskar
India has an unbelievable advantage in methane generation. Not just from bullshit, as this column explained last week, but...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editors-picks/the-chimera-of-affordable-housing/1448875
Is the government serious about affordable housing?
RN Bhaskar -- 31 January 2019
Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence, a time of confidences
Simon & Garfunkel, Broken ends
Fifty years is almost a life-time...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-judiciary-3-india-forgets-the-spirit-behind-the-rule-of-law-makes-a-mockery-of-justice
Judiciary -3: Please don't make a joke out of the rule of law
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar -- March 11, 2021
The past two months were witness to a piquant situation. On...
R N Bhaskar
March 3, 2014
The Maharashtra government has just tabled a bill to change the cutoff date for recognising slums - from 1995 to 2000. This is against a Bombay High Court order, which was challenged by the state,...
Government norms for ranking vocational institutes are shortsighted, even harmful
By RN Bhaskar
Ever since the Union Budget got announced barely a month ago, there has been a lot of buzz around the offices of the Directorate General for Vocational Education. ...
