http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-the-cow-jumps-over-the-moon-1810578
The cow jumps over the moon
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 - 10:25am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
India enjoys a major advantage over other countries – it has the largest cattle population in the world. This was partly due...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/geography-economics-history-and-culture-heres-why-india-and-china-need-each-other
How should India view China?
RN Bhaskar - July 2, 2020
At times of war, it is dangerous to talk of peace. As the poet TS Eliot once remarked (through the lips of Aunt Agatha in A Family Reunion), “In a...
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...
Can the legend of Dr.Verghese Kurien be erased?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image source: NDDB
26 November 2025. It was a day for celebrations. It has also become a day for sadness. It was a day when the country...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-unintended-consequences-of-the-ban-on-cow-slaughter
Uttar Pradesh and its cow problem
RN Bhaskar
Yogi Adityanath should be a worried man He has a problem born of his own creation. His state has been one of the most belligerent in its enforcement of the ban on cow...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/why-no-transparency-in-funding-by-insurance-cos/1506508
Why is there no disclosure of investments by insurance companies?
RN Bhaskar April 18, 2019
On 11 April, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (or SEBI) issued a circular (No. SEBI/HO/IMD/DF2/CIR/P/2019/57). It is addressed to all Mutual Funds...
Maharashtra could soon become part of BIMMARU
By RN Bhaskar
Image by Kalpesh Mistry
Is Maharashtra headed in the same direction that Uttar Pradesh has taken for the past few decades? Will it become another addition to the BIMARU grouping causing a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-government-can-easily-clean-up-gold-market-in-india/1106479
Just three steps and the govt can clean up the gold market
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 20, 2017 07:04 am
The gold market in India is in a mess. Smuggling continues big time. Seizure of smuggled-in-gold barely accounts for 3%...
China's problems are becoming viral news. Is the situation that bad?
RN Bhaskar
The Western world and its allies are in a state of funk. They oscillate between aggression and fear – a kind of collective paranoia seldom seen before. They...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-slums-2-how-slums-distort-normal-economics-in-india
Slums 2
Great scheme for politicians and graft-seekers
RN Bhaskar
Anyone who has seen pictures of the large-scale deaths in slums caused in the Bhopal gas tragedy (https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/bhopal-gas-tragedy-in-pics-363786-2010-06-08) knows what an irresponsible approach towards human settlements can do. On the night of...
