Thursday, April 23, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/railway-lessons-for-india-with-love-from-japan/ Railway lessons for India: With love, from Japan — By R N Bhaskar | Nov 26, 2015 12:09 am India once boasted of having one of the largest railway networks in the world – thanks to the British. But it slipped in...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/expect-2018-to-be-more-unsettling-than-2017/1178960 An unsettling 2018 — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 30, 2017 07:52 am Most marketmen are a bit confused about what the markets and the leading economies have in store for 2018.  The first of such reports is already out.  Credit Suisse...
Falling oil prices, remittances and jobs Feb 04, 2016 12:00 am http://www.freepressjournal.in/falling-oil-prices-remittances-and-jobs-rn-bhaskar/771956 Any which way you look at it, non-resident-Indians (NRIs) have done this country proud. With hardly any government support programme, through sheer grit and enterprise, these NRIs have ventured...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/good-governance-begins-at-home-itself India's problem with governance RN Bhaskar – 07 November, 2019 In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and to the penalties that could be levied in case corporate governance...
2026-03-16 The legislature and the executive have often connived to corrupt the judiciary By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Copilot Powerful people feel secure when they can do two things.  After amassing wealth, becoming visible, and gaining respect, they still hanker...
The government is keen on strengthening Aadhaar. That will allow it to effectively implement its Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) programme across the country. But there is a gaping hole in the entire process.  India has been counting only its living....
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-russia-ukraine-will-cause-inflation-to-soar-and-currencies-to-tumble The US gambit with Ukraine and Russia will scorch the entire world RN Bhaskar Almost two months have transpired since the Ukraine-Russia-NATO-USA spat began.  As mentioned in these columns, this was a war that the US wanted, and got (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/02/ukraine-the-war-that-usa-wants/).  It...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-loses-focus-on-human-capital Human capital is what India ignores to its peril RN Bhaskar Quite often, it is what the government does not want to talk about that defines a nation than what the government trumpets. This is true about the Pegasus affair.  About...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-google-using-its-power-and-popularity-responsibly Google brush with the regulators in India But many answers are not forthcoming RN Bhaskar Google is expected to do the unusual all the time.  It has many firsts to its credit. It changed the search engine ecosystem.  The music video environment....