Sunday, September 27, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-futures-in-diamonds-is-sebi-promoting-a-scam/1054949 Diamond futures and SEBI's blind spot — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 20, 2017 09:34 am On Tuesday, January 10, the Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX) came out with a statement (www.icexindia.com/pdf/10012017_RE.pdf) informing people that it was planning to launch three futures contracts for...
Trump makes America weep RN Bhaskar Images through CoPilot In the last article we talked about why Trump’s blustering remarks on oil may boomerang -- Free subscription -- https://open.substack.com/pub/bhaskarr/p/will-trump-get-bogged-down?r=ni0hb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true.  This time, we talk about how Trump is making America weep. The US is...
8 June 2026 Indian politicians are part of the Epstein class By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Copilot   India was shocked when it heard that the names of Prime Minister Modi and his minister Hardeep Singh Puri had been named in...
Why did India choose the UK for the FTA deal? RN Bhaskar Image generated by https://www.bing.com On the same day when India launched a surgical strike against “terrorist camps” in Pakistan, came the announcement that this country had finally signed an FTA...
Turkey has done things that India has not By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image source:Copilot   When India snapped ties with Turkey in May 2025, it took many observers by surprise. The justification given by the government of India was that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-is-encouraging-wage-disparity/ India is encouraging wage disparity — By RN Bhaskar | Dec 10, 2015 12:43 am  Last week there was a huge public outcry from some quarters when the Delhi Assembly passed a resolution allowing its legislators to get a 400% pay hike....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-the-inr-falls-it-is-easy-to-blame-gold-writes-rn-bhaskar A weak INR and growing CAD are a result of poor gold policies By RN Bhaskar The RBI in its recent report (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx?Id=21137#FN14) states “Gold imports at US$ 2.6 billion in June 2022 were almost half the level of US$ 6.0...
A huge educational crisis confronts India – can it be saved? By RN Bhaskar In October 2004, IITD (Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi) ranked 13th in the first edition of the QS University Rankings (https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/brics-rankings/top-universities-india). By 2024, its ranking had...
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...
The dairy sector could be in for more confusions and value destruction By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org    On 3 March 2025, the government’s Press Information Bureau or PIB came up with a very interesting item (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=2107807&reg=3&lang=1).  It was titled...