RBI’s unwise dividend payout to the government
By RN Bhaskar
On 22 May 2024, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that it would be paying to the government a whopping sum of Rs.2.11 lakh crore rupees by way of dividend. ...
The quagmire effect – Quo Vadis?
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By RN Bhaskar
Nothing resembles a quagmire more than the state of the US post President Trump’s pronouncements on immigration, and high tariffs. He thinks he could be bringing glory back to the...
The US could end up damning the world
RN Bhaskar
“An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” – Sun Tzu (https://twitter.com/Byoussef/status/1347003718772924416)
The trouble with megalomaniacs, and warmongers is that their obsession with being...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/stressed-assets-sometimes-crooks-squeal-loudest-r-n-bhaskar/880378
Stressed assets: Scamsters try to squeal their way out
Over the last fortnight, most headlines talked about Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), deciding to go back to academics after his term with the RBI got over this...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/rn-bhaskar-right-to-die-with-dignity-busting-myths/762536
Right to die with dignity: Busting myths
— By FPJ Bureau | Jan 21, 2016 12:21 am
Last week, the Supreme Court (SC) of India resurrected the debate on euthanasia. The topic had seared the conscience of the nation when, in March...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-sibal-s-kiss-of-death-1385602
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The RTE and the foreign universities could ensure the collapse of school and higher education.
Kapil Sibal, the Union minister for human resources development (HRD), is a man in a hurry. That could explain why he has...
Education: India gloats, but shrivels under scrutiny
RN Bhaskar
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On April 3, 2025, media headlines talked about how the state government of Maharashtra scrapping the “one state, one uniform” policy. It said that individual School Management Committees (SMCs),...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/indian-shipping-grows-but-overseas-not-in-india-rn-bhaskar/1382701
Indian shipping faces disadvantages in India, but not overseas
RN Bhaskar October 25, 2018
Indian shipping is at a crossroads. On the one hand, it would like to be part of the government vision of Make-In-India. On the other hand, the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-aspirations-become-achievements-r-n-bhaskar/1367956
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Celebrating wealth generators
RN Bhaskar
It is when news like the Barclays Hurun Rich List get splashed around in the media that one actually begins to appreciate how rapidly India has been changing. The sharp increase in the number of wealthy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/stanchart-seeks-to-control-the-destiny-of-indian-banks-and-profit-foreign-firms-says-rn-bhaskar-2
Stanchart seeks to control the destiny of Indian banks and profit foreign firms
RN Bhaskar
To understand how Standard Chartered Bank (SCB or Stanchart) works in India, one has only to go to the way it acted in the matter relating...
