Thursday, July 9, 2026
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...
Loans will continue to rise if unemployment is not eased RN Bhaskar Last week India’s central bank, the RBI, revised and tightened norms for borrowings, raised risk weights for personal loans and credit cards.  That will make the cost of borrowing...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-crisis-in-the-classrooms-2108078 Crisis in the classrooms Cut through the hype that governments like to spin out. You then realise that India’s growth story is quite shaky. Its education related numbers (see chart) tell a very bleak story. Of 100 students who went in...
Waste-management: Sweden can show the way http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-lessons-we-can-learn-from-sweden-in-waste-management-2007453 Sweden is a small country. Its landmass is just 450,295 sq. km compared with 3,287,590 sq km for India. It population is even smaller – 9.6 million people compared with 1.2 billion for India. But...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/healthcare-and-medical-education-blighted-vision Healthcare and medical education mismanaged and misunderstood by the government RN Bhaskar – June 4, 2020 The government has finally been stirred and shaken by the horrific exposure of the abject health facilities in the country.  This was thanks to the...
Hallucinations of power and wealth – Budget 2024 By RN Bhaskar The Bing generated image above is about a person’s hallucinations of power and wealth. In a way, the underpinnings of the Interim Budget 2024 presented before Parliament on 1 February...
Property Taxes don’t reflect any maturing of the Indian economy RN Bhaskar On 2 February 2024, the Municipal Commissioner of the BMC (BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation or the erstwhile name Bombay Municipal Corporation) made a formal statement about the Corporation’s annual budget. ...
India’s numbers only tell a fragmented story RN Bhaskar In January 2024. Fitch affirmed a BBB- rating for India (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/fitch-maintains-bbb-sovereign-rating-for-india-with-a-stable-outlook-amid-strong-growth/articleshow/106904607.cms?from=mdr).  So did almost every other major ratings agency in the world. Many in the government, and a few outside it as...
Can the legend of Dr.Verghese Kurien be erased? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image source: NDDB 26 November 2025. It was a day for celebrations. It has also become a day for sadness. It was a day when the country...
Desalination is a cover-up for inefficiency even corruption in India By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Increasingly, India is pushing for more desalination projects. That is a mistake because a) India does not need desalination plants except for a very...