http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/religion-and-the-quest-for-peace/1167005
Germany's quest for peace through religion
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 09, 2017 08:18 am
This year marks the 500th year of the Reformation in Christianity. It was a major change that caused a split within the ranks of Christianity.
The origins lie...
Policy lapses could revive the 1990 spectre once again
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India is at the proverbial fork. There is a road, full of obstacles, which could lead to Viksit Bharat (the mirage politicians...
Can the Election Commission duck these queries?
RN Bhaskar
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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...
Are India’s milk markets up for sale?
RN Bhaskar
I have been this way before, and I am sure
To be this way again. Once again
Excerpt from a Neil Diamond song in the Serenade album
Update: After this article appeared, the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-g7-wants-to-ban-russian-gold-hah
So is it the turn of gold markets now?
RN Bhaskar
Are the G7 countries doing what India describes through an adage? “Vinashakale vipreet buddhi” is a saying which – loosely translated -- means “During the time of destruction, man takes...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-4-stop-fiddling-with-agri-edible-oil-prices
Agenda #4 – Edible oil prices soar when demand is down
RN Bhaskar
(The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/)
“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
-- TS Eliot,...
R N Bhaskar
27 April 2015
Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful trip to three countries. Each of these trips is aimed at achieving two objectives. First, to improve India’s relations with some of the most advanced and...
Great plans for an India-ME-Europe corridor to mimic China’s BRI
By RN Bhaskar
On 9 September, the US While House put out a notification (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/09/09/fact-sheet-world-leaders-launch-a-landmark-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor/). It informed the world the following: “Today, we the leaders of the United States, India, Saudi Arabia, the...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulatory-games-2-how-sebi-muddies-the-waters
Regulatory games2
SEBI muddies the waters
It’s no go the merry-go-round, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Bagpipe music (1938) by Louis MacNeice
RN Bhaskar
A look at recent developments at The Securities Exchange...










































