Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Germany stumbles; Is limping today By RN Bhaskar Image generated using Perplexity Germany has stumbled badly.  It is limping currently.  The stumble was not because it was careless.  It was because it was more focussed on pleasing the US rather than...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-slums-3-indias-myopic-votebank-policies-now-threaten-lifestyles-liberties-and-even-human-lives Slums 3 India's myopia is threatening life across the world No matter what the government may say, the Covid infections have already claimed 5 million lives in India (https://asiaconverge.com/2021/08/slums-1-big-danger-ahead-pandemic-and-possibly-mass-extermination/). The strong correlationship between Covid infested cities and slums cannot be denied...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/higher-education-sinks-lower-in-india/835496 Learn from China. Focus on schools; leave higher education alone The age of ironies has just begun. There was a time when India used to be a centre of learning and higher education.  Huen Tsang (known as Monk Xuan Zang in...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-spectre-of-unemployment-2080974 Spectre of unemployment Monday, 27 April 2015 - 8:22am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dn R N Bhaskar A time bomb is ticking away — over 300 million jobs needed within this decade Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful...
R N Bhaskar 12 January 2015 In the first fortnight of December 2014, media reports talked about how poor policy-making had retarded investments of over Rs50,000 crore in the fertiliser industry. Such reports were apparently based on a report by a leading...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editors-picks/the-chimera-of-affordable-housing/1448875 Is the government serious about affordable housing? RN Bhaskar -- 31 January 2019 Time it was, and what a time it was, it was A time of innocence, a time of confidences Simon & Garfunkel, Broken ends Fifty years is almost a life-time...
R N Bhaskar 11 May 2015 The need for an industry­-friendly land-­acquisition law is underscored when one looks at Sabharwal Food Industries (SFI). This 5,000 tonne multi-­commodity cold-­storage unit at Kundli, Sonepat, Haryana is unique because its managing director, Anil Sabharwal, decided...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-the-us-push-oil-to-usd-250-a-barrel-r-n-bhaskar/1314064 The US roils the oil markets again — By RN Bhaskar | Jul 12, 2018 07:31 am Last week, Artem Avinov, leading analyst with TeleTrade, predicted that oil prices could jump to $250 per barrel if the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by...
R N Bhaskar 27 July 2015 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...
Can India deal with China the way Vietnam has done?  By RN Bhaskar India appears to be spooked by China.  Its actions do not appear rational. To understand this, just look at what Vietnam has done.  The world is waking up...