Thursday, September 10, 2026

How will 2024 be for India and its economy? By RN Bhaskar Prognosis is judgement about how something is likely to develop in the future.  It is based on symptoms that are visible today, and which may lead to consequences, unless...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-most-indicators-flashing-red-theres-trouble-ahead India's intolerance towards minorities spells trouble RN Bhaskar Things are falling apart. There's trouble ahead. A former Enforcement Directorate official lobbies to join a political party immediately after retirement. He is in the company of many other law enforcement officers who have...
India stunts its middle-class growth RN Bhaskar Not a month passes by in India without eulogies being paid to this country’s growing middle class.  This is important for several reasons.  The middle class has purchasing power.  The greater the number of...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/1906450/column-policy-watch-p-notes-the-big-money-laundering-machine P-notes: The big money laundering machine Monday, Oct 21, 2013, 9:54 IST | Agency: DNA On August 1, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) instructed foreign institutional investors (FIIs) which were seeking to hedge forex exposure relating to participatory notes...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/manufacturing-continues-to-disenchant/1114582 Manufacturing gets pushed aside in India — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 03, 2017 06:48 am The government talks about strengthening the manufacturing backbone of India.  Slogans of ‘Make in India’ continue to rent the air. Everyone talks about how this is to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/625996/The-Free-Press-Journal-Mumbai-Edition/29-Oct-2015?show=touch#page/10/1 Pending cases and political criminality — By R N Bhaskar | Oct 29, 2015 12:50 am There is one question most social scientists have been grappling with for ages – what is the difference between a government and the mafia? After all,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-rera-becomes-real-will-the-customer-still-be-king/1066031 Will diluted forms of RERA work? — By RN Bhaskar | May 11, 2017 07:48 am It was a concept that was being spoken of almost nine years ago.  Finally, this government has made it happen.  Nobody thought that the real-estate-developer lobby could...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/eco-surveys-flawed-approach-towards-energy/1126691 The flawed approach of the Economic Survey towards energy — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 24, 2017 07:29 am The second volume of the Economic Survey, 2015-16 (http://indiabudget.nic.in/budget2016-2017/vol2_survey.asp) makes for very interesting reading. But its analysis of the energy sector is inadequate. Take the...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/need-to-take-literacy-improvement-seriously-r-n-bhaskar/1282452 Very few states take literacy improvement seriously — By RN Bhaskar | May 24, 2018 The government of India like to crow about how it has improved India’s literacy levels ever since independence.  But when the numbers are studied carefully for a long...