The folly of losing friends, influence and money
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By RN Bhaskar
In the second week of May 2025, India decided to cancel security clearances for the Turkish company Celebi (https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/turkey-celebi-aviation-india-aiports-13888717.html). It had begun delivering world-class ground handling and cargo...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-how-to-plan-for-paid-parking-and-paid-hawking/1051060
A suggestion for solving Mumbai's problems of parking and hawking
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 09:40 am
There’s a great deal of heat and dust in Mumbai. And it is not only on account of the weather. One of the...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs
RN Bhaskar
The claims are tantalizing. The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-amid-coronavirus-outbreak-will-your-milk-be-delivered-home
Milk, subsidies, turbulence and coronavirus
RN Bhaskar – April 9, 2020
Last fortnight, milk was in the spotlight once again. And this time ostensibly because of the coronavirus lockdown.
Some milk producers began crying wolf. They said that milk supplies to Mumbai...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-sibal-s-kiss-of-death-1385602
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The RTE and the foreign universities could ensure the collapse of school and higher education.
Kapil Sibal, the Union minister for human resources development (HRD), is a man in a hurry. That could explain why he has...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-lost-mantra-of-grow-more-with-less-1949931
R N Bhaskar | Updated: Jan 13, 2014, 08:54 AM IST, DNA
The agony of fragmentation of agricultural land holdings in India is an old story. What is alarming is that, today, almost 67% comprise small holdings –...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-energyministries-practice-to-deceive
Are India's solar energy plans sought to be scuttled?
RN Bhaskar -- October 10, 2019
The performance of prime minister Narendra Modi, at the recently concluded United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, was electrifying (pun intended). He reiterated before...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-will-not-understand-governance-till-uttar-pradesh-is-tamed
India's cross will be the badlands of Uttar Pradesh
RN Bhaskar
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them , , ,
My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty”
Excerpted from Pity the Nation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article137279578.html)
Uttar...
Behind India’s hoopla about GST and GDP is a grim reality
By RN Bhaskar
Lately, there has been a great deal of excitement over India’s GST (Goods and Services Tax) collections climbing by another 13% on a year-on-year basis. And people...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-diamonds-may-not-be-safe-for-investors-any-more
Diamonds no longer anyone's best friend any more
RN Bhaskar
The last couple of months have witnessed a barrage of advertisements seeking to lure jewellery buyers to diamonds. They talk about how natural diamonds are the safest items of jewellery, unique...
