Thursday, June 25, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-2017-looking-back-looking-ahead/997952 Retrospective 2016 – looking back; looking ahead on e-payments There can be no doubt about it. If there is anything that 2016 will be remembered for in India, it will be the ‘de-legalisation’ of Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes. Popularly referred...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/is-the-telecommunications-sector-being-skewered The decimation of the Indian telecom sector? RN Bhaskar  -- October 31, 2019 Do policymakers in India secretly harbor a death-wish? The question was uppermost in the minds of most people immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling last week (https://clpr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cellular-Operators-v.-TRAI.pdf)  that...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-a-muted-30th-anniversary-for-india A troubled 30th anniversary of India's economic liberalisation RN Bhaskar Last week, the nation celebrated its 30th anniversary of economic liberalisation.  The year 1991 was when India actually dared to break away from the shackles that had fettered its growth. That...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/more-homework-needed-for-industrialisation-r-n-bhaskar/893790 MIDC: How industry gets sabotaged, land-grab abetted, and extortion ignored The Constitution of India has a very interesting section which most people are not very familiar with.  It is Article 243 Q (c) which states that municipal corporations should be...
R N Bhaskar 20 July 2015 "Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school.  School education is the most enduring way to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/finally-cruise-tourism-has-dawned-on-india-r-n-bhaskar/1129172 The dawn of cruise tourism in India — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 31, 2017 07:33 am The work actually began two years before August 8, 2017, when Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for shipping, ports and roads, unveiled his plans for cruise...
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...
NINJAs on hire with no education, no income By RN Bhaskar Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ― Heinrich Heine The crazed public lynchings and burnings have begun. The depressing part is that they, like many other...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-for-the-government-1-dont-meddle-with-the-dairy-sector Agenda for the government – #1. Dairy farming is the lifeblood of rural India RN Bhaskar (The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/) This article has two recommendations. The first is that the health minister needs to be replaced.  He promotes neither...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-biggest-laundromat-agriculture-r-n-bhaskar/884663 A 100 years' taxes can be found through India’s agriculture laundromat Is is Rs.2,000 lakh crore or Rs.674 lakh crore, or Rs.199 lakh crore? Any which way you look at it, the figures are disturbingly high!  But these are figures...