Sunday, May 24, 2026
The India infrastructure hype RN Bhaskar Last week, the government announced that it would be embarking on another large investment outlay for infrastructure.  As a media report (https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govts-big-infra-push-nod-to-road-projects-worth-rs-50655-crore-9491780/) put it, “In a big push to infrastructure spending, the Union government Friday...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/1836935/report-policy-watch-mining-and-politics-go-hand-inhand Illegal mining i8n India is huge Illegal mining knows no colour; reported cases are just the tip of the iceberg. On December 10, 2012, Dinsha Patel, minister for mines, prepared a statement in reply to an unstarred question placed before the...
The Garuda and the Asiatic Lion are rapidly displacing the elephant By R.N.Bhaskar Image generated using https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img   There was a time when the elephant – India’s mascot for the world – had an impressive stature.  It was present everywhere.  It was a...
India will be promoting poverty — a hole for people to fall into By RN Bhaskar Image generated suing https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img When it comes to development and increasing the prosperity of common folk, India needs to take a lesson or two from what...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/urgent-need-for-gold-reforms Gold reforms are being delayed. Why? RN Bhaskar  -- 14 November, 2019 Last week, on Nov 5, 2019, this publication, in association with BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) held a conference on The increasing allure of gold. As discussions continued, each panellist spoke...
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...
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-what-the-fm-did-not-announce Policy watch To ease economic distress, the country needs demand revival, not mere credit guarantees RN Bhaskar News is made when you do something great.  But news is also made when you do something stupid, or something that looks like sensible action,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-e-solutions-cannot-substitute-efficiency-integrity-and-intelligence India stunts its own ecommerce potential RN Bhaskar India has always prided itself on its IT (information Technology) skills.  It believes that it can become the world’s outsourcing hub for technology. It believes that it could become the biggest ecommerce and esolutions...
R N Bhaskar 13 April 2015 First, the caveat. This analysis is not meant to hurt the sentiments of any community. It is to present scenarios which should be considered seriously. Now, the analysis. True, India is the world #1 in both milk...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/sodhi-resignation-milk-industry-jolted-writes-rn-bhaskar Sodhi resignation -- Milk industry jolted RN Bhaskar Last week delivered a shock to many in the milk industry.  R.S. Sodhi, the senior-most executive of the largest milk cooperative in India accounting for a turnover of Rs. Rs 46,481 crore in...