13 July 2026
Tamil Nadu is right in challenging the cattle slaughter laws
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: Chatgpt
In the first week of July 2026 came the startling news that the Tamil Nadu government had approached India’s Supreme Court...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/psus-when-a-promise-is-not-a-promise-r-n-bhaskar/1242051
PSUs: Promises forgotten, rules ignored
— By RN Bhaskar | Mar 22, 2018 08:17 am
On March 13, 2018, the Parliament’s Lower House, the Lok Sabha, passed without debate two finance bills and 218 amendments. These included funding demands from 99 government...
R N Bhaskar
27 April 2015
Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful trip to three countries. Each of these trips is aimed at achieving two objectives. First, to improve India’s relations with some of the most advanced and...
BRICS’ gold backed currency could roil the markets
RN Bhaskar
The BRICS conference in Kazan, Russia, from October 22 to 24 2024, is just over. It brought gold centrestage.
BRICS has expanded from the original five – Brazil, Russia, India, China and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/high-costs-bedevil-india
Judicial delays, import duties and corruption make business a high cost affair
RN Bhaskar – 11 July 2019
When Prime minister Modi won at the hustings with a thumping majority, there was a resurgence of hope. Maybe, Modi 2.0 would be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/education-matters-thats-why-kejri-matters
Education lessons from Kejriwal
RN Bhaskar -- 5 March 2020
The recent Delhi elections confirmed one thing – that the formidable election machine Modi and the BJP had built was no match for the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Like all...
Will debt spur India’s GDP growth this time despite textiles languishing?
RN Bhaskar
On 31 October, 2023, the RBI governor, Shaktikanta Das, stated that the growth momentum in the economy continues to be strong, and that the GDP number for the...
The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more. Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is the accusation that the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-strong-undercurrents-stronger-demand-r-n-bhaskar/916018
Policy Watch:
Gold has not lost its allure
Gold continues to fascinate and perplex. Unlike as during the earlier two decades, central banks the world over have been net purchasers of gold. Earlier they were net sellers. Most analysts believe that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-centre-of-gravity-of-billionaires-could-shift/1171231
Billionaires get a fillip in Asia
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 16, 2017 08:47 am
In India there is a saying that if the first generation creates wealth, the second tries to build on it, but the third, invariably squanders it. In...
