Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Trade requires discussion and consultation. Not unilateral action RN Bhaskar The government has been seesaw-ing quite a bit during recent months.  Some of them will hurt India in many ways.  And there are serious implications for the future of trade and...
R N Bhaskar 20 April 2015 Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places —WH Auden Can religion influence business? Yes indeed! A good indicator is the decline in cow population in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/will-the-remittances-flow-revive/1400829 Can remittances surpass their 2014 levels? RN Bhaskar November 22, 2018 Four years ago, when oil prices were slipping, there were worries that remittances from foreign workers into India would decline.  The reduction in oil revenues had made many countries in...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-uday-and-the-politics-of-appeasement-and-largesse/1047188 UDAY is doomed to fail, unless subsidies can first be controlled — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 06, 2017 09:11 am In November 2015, the Union government launched the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY). It was a program aimed at financial turnaround and...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/and-silently-flows-the-ganges/1265081 The Ganges remains polluted RN Bhaskar | Apr 26, 2018 07:39 am No other river in India evokes the faith, love and  disgust that the Ganga is famous for.  It is a river than breathes history.  Its banks have hosted towns and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/strategy-for-healthier-india-china-trade China and India could together revive the global economy RN Bhaskar  26 March 2020 China has been a savvy investor in India (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/03/china-investments-in-india-are-strategic-and-profitable/).  Some claim that China has outsmarted India.  But such cynical views miss the big picture.  China created value...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rural-incomes-worse-than-previously-imagined-r-n-bhaskar/1340980 The rural sector earns very little says Nabard — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 23, 2018   The latest Nabard survey on All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17 -- https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417NABARD-Repo-16_Web_P.pdf -- points to a bigger farm crisis than had been imagined earlier. Just take...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/ailing-airlines-victim-of-the-governments-meddling-hand/1531739 Airlines become victims of the government’s meddling hand RN Bhaskar May 23, 2019 By now, almost every industry analyst has begun to write-off Jet Airways.  Jet had big dreams. It had benefitted from many favourable government policy decisions – right from...
Governance: hype, hope, and hell RN Bhaskar There is confusion that has gripped many Indians about the fate of the country’s polity and its future. On the one hand there are eulogies about the enormous potential India holds out. On the other are...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-energyministries-practice-to-deceive Are India's solar energy plans sought to be scuttled? RN Bhaskar  -- October 10, 2019 The performance of prime minister Narendra Modi, at the recently concluded United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, was electrifying (pun intended). He reiterated before...