Saturday, November 8, 2025
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bribery-at-all-levels-in-its-five-shades-r-n-bhaskar/867684 Five shades of bribery The Modi government prides itself on on trying to usher in corruption-free and bribery-free governance.  Maybe someone should tell its legislators that the best way to clean up governance is by making bribe-giving legal. This is what...
Falling oil prices, remittances and jobs Feb 04, 2016 12:00 am http://www.freepressjournal.in/falling-oil-prices-remittances-and-jobs-rn-bhaskar/771956 Any which way you look at it, non-resident-Indians (NRIs) have done this country proud. With hardly any government support programme, through sheer grit and enterprise, these NRIs have ventured...
R N Bhaskar  15 June 2015 When Suresh Prabhu, Union Minister for Railways made his railway budget presentation earlier this year, he spoke of the challenges that lie ahead. He talked about how the railways are expected to earn like a commercial...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/too-soon-to-celebrate-storm-clouds-ahead-for-india Is the worst over for the Indian economy? RN Bhaskar Most speculators seem quite upbeat after the pounding they have gone through during the recent bear phase. They believe that good times have begun.  Maybe, they are right.  It does look...
Education: India gloats, but shrivels under scrutiny RN Bhaskar Image generated by https://deepai.org/ On April 3, 2025, media headlines talked about how the state government of Maharashtra scrapping the “one state, one uniform” policy. It said that individual School Management Committees (SMCs),...
http://m.firstpost.com/business/adanis-largest-solar-power-project-in-tn-is-good-but-rooftop-solar-is-the-way-ahead-3017408.html Adani's TN solar project: Great achievement; but rooftop0 so9lar's better RN Bhaskar Sep 23, 2016 15:59 IST On Wednesday, 21 September, 2016, the Adani group launched the largest single location solar power project in the world. The group which...
Can India deal with China the way Vietnam has done?  By RN Bhaskar India appears to be spooked by China.  Its actions do not appear rational. To understand this, just look at what Vietnam has done.  The world is waking up...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/of-men-morals-and-madira-is-the-government-doing-enough-to-tackle-the-liquor-shop-issue Covid-19 – of men, morals, madira and home delivery RN Bhaskar  -- 14 May, 2020 This article must be read alongside another written for FPJ last week (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/morality-is-fine-but-liquor-is-quicker-why-opening-of-wine-shops-amid-pandemic-raises-serious-questions).  At that time, there were indications that Maharashtra would lift the lockdown for...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/eco-surveys-flawed-approach-towards-energy/1126691 The flawed approach of the Economic Survey towards energy — By RN Bhaskar | Aug 24, 2017 07:29 am The second volume of the Economic Survey, 2015-16 (http://indiabudget.nic.in/budget2016-2017/vol2_survey.asp) makes for very interesting reading. But its analysis of the energy sector is inadequate. Take the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-the-lure-of-online-groceries-is-growing-stronger-and-stronger Online groceries to witness booming times ahead RN Bhaskar – 16 April 2020 The business of online groceries has been growing at 67% year on year. There are several factors that have propelled this growth.  First, India as a consumption economy. Second,...