Friday, May 22, 2026
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/shouldnt-india-issue-a-travel-advisory-against-trips-to-the-us-4916171.html Coronavirus and other epidemics: Shouldn’t India issue a travel advisory against trips to the US? RN Bhaskar  --  6 Feb 2020 First, a caveat.  The author is no authority on viruses, and has based his arguments on the basis of material...
27 April 2026 Russia pushes out US from India By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: India Today The news item in Al Jazeera on 24 April 2026 was cataclysmic -- https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/24/russian-troops-warships-in-india-soon-why-their-new-military-pact-matters.  Much of India’s mainstream media has not covered this item. ...
09 February 2026 US trade deal -- a sellout? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Bloomberg A month ago, before the US trade deal with India -- we actually believed that India had rediscovered its spine.  This was because India had...
R N Bhaskar 26 January 2015 Turkey is the fourth-largest consumer of gold (dwarfed only by India, China and the US). But it is the one country most gold players have been watching for the past few years. India should be...
India’s net FDI is a pointer to a deeper malaise By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img On May 23, 2025, media headlines announced (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-net-fdi-crashes-96-5-in-fy25-lowest-on-record/articleshow/121353121.cms) that India’s net FDI had plummeted by a shocking 96%.  This was the lowest it had slipped. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-tales-of-equity-and-debt-in-india-since-2014/1031646 Equity markets soar; but banks languish for the want of customers who want debt — By RN Bhaskar | Mar 09, 2017 09:42 am India perplexes.  That’s an adage that many have grown to live with.  And nothing confirms this perplexing picture...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/germany-tries-to-bhttps://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/germany-tries-to-bounce-back-after-ukraine Policy Watch Germany hitches its wagon to the Chinese engine RN Bhaskar The attempts of the US and NATO to use President Zelensky of Ukraine to needle Russia may be backfiring, big time. The first retaliation came from Russia.  The second could...
Can the Election Commission duck these queries? RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img The government, in concert with the Election Commissioner, has been quite active in pushing through the “SIR”.  The matter is now pending before the Supreme Court. Irrespective of the court’s...
R N Bhaskar 13 July 2015 There are signs of gloom.  People have already begun grumbling, even accusing the government of causing a slowdown. A major pointer is the dipping flow of investments into India. Is the Indian economy sinking? Maybe not....
Much of India is poorer than the sub-Saharan region By RN Bhaskar After all the talk about Viksit Bharat, last fortnight’s developments have highlighted the hollowness of such claims. What is ironic is that instead of focussing on the key economic...