http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-flunks-sustainable-health-scores-as-well-r-n-bhaskar/923167
India's concern for medicare and health is terrible
Canny economists do not get taken in by the tall talk of politicians and bureaucrats. They prefer instead to look carefully at three sets of numbers which tell them more truthfully about...
R N Bhaskar
9 February 2015
On 23 January 2014, this author received a letter from the “Court of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities” informing him that his case had been “closed”. He had complained about the railways not being...
Trump’s lies about Venezuela
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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January 3, 2026, was a red-letter day – for Venezuela, the US, the world and international law. All of them will now face consequences that will go...
R N Bhaskar
6 April 2015
Had the government really been serious about providing affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of society, all it had to do was to look at what Iran has done. If it thought that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-has-begun-to-make-waves/
India has begun to make waves
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 11, 2015 01:11 am
There’s a lot going on in media nowadays that makes one believe that India is going downhill. It could be an orchestrated approach to malign the...
Much of India is poorer than the sub-Saharan region
By RN Bhaskar
After all the talk about Viksit Bharat, last fortnight’s developments have highlighted the hollowness of such claims. What is ironic is that instead of focussing on the key economic...
The growing irrelevance of India on the global stage
RN Bhaskar
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On 6 April, full four days after US President Trump announced sweeping tariffs for all countries exporting goods to the US, Piyush Goyal and his team were...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/harbingers-of-nuclear-war
Harbingers of nukes
RN Bhaskar
Last fortnight was full of incidents that appeared to portend war, with all its ferocity and consequences that only nuclear warfare could unleash.
Enemy action?
On 17 September, most people were surprised by a headline in the Financial...
R N Bhaskar
20 July 2015
"Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school. School education is the most enduring way to...
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...
