https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/chinas-investment-can-grow-further
Don't underestimate China's savvy when investing in India
RN Bhaskar - 19 March, 2020
Note from the author: This article has two parts to it. This part looks at investments China has already made in India. The second part will examine...
India’s slip is showing- underperformance is the culprit
RN Bhaskar
India has been witness to a lot of bluster and chest-thumping. But recent numbers have begun to highlight the country’s underperformance. One of the first signs is the slowing of exports...
The 'grade inflation' of our past, which has lead to 'massive unemployability' in the present, could lead to 'economic disaster' in the future, warns RN Bhaskar
There is nothing more tragic than watching a champion stumble—that is how most parents...
Riots – what provokes them?
Image source: BBC
By RN Bhaskar with inputs from Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Nepal is on the boil. The prime minister and president have been compelled to demit their respective offices. The crowds continued to go on a...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/india/priorities-for-the-govt-war-bihar-or-atma-nirbharta/915423be-fdae-459f-b88d-87399e5db574
Priorities for the govt: war, Bihar, or atma nirbharta?
RN Bhaskar -- July 9, 2020
Politics can be a great distorter of truths because it is often based on optics. And as Henri Bergson said about comedy, it is like froth. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/legalise-work-permits-for-immigrants/1118599
Work-permits for migrants needed urgently
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 10, 2017 07:34 am
Hatred against immigrants is not peculiar to India alone. But it is at its peak when economic conditions are harsh, and a local population looks unkindly at people...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-focus-on-dignity-and-employment-not-distribution-of-doles
Wealth generation and dignity more important than distribution of doles
RN Bhaskar
The finance minister has been singing praises (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/india-kept-extreme-poverty-at-bay-in-pandemic-years-imf-working-paper) for the Prime Minister’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under this scheme, free foodgrain was given away to needy...
R N Bhaskar
February 10, 2014
The government's advertisements talk of Bharat Nirman. But numbers tell a different tale.
It was evident by 2010 itself that India would have to brace itself for a slowdown of mammoth proportions.
Workforce numbers in both organised...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/lost-opportunities-of-the-textile-editorial-editors-pick-ananlysis-textile-industry-industry-era-r-n-bhaskarindustry/962757
India's textile industry: where does it go from here?
Rn bhaskar
The textile industry is the backbone of India’s foray into the industry era. It was this sector which actually defined India for a couple of centuries. And it still remains...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/business-with-thailand-could-grow-faster/1250669
Indians begin to look at Thailand for locating their businesses there
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 05, 2018 08:22 am
Thailand is not unfamiliar to most Indian businessmen.
The Aditya Birla group was one of the first to discover the advantages of investing...
