The government abets cybercrime
By RN Bhaskar
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On 30 June 2025, news headlines talked about how the digital-gold website of Aditya Birla Capital Digital (ABCD) had been hacked (https://www.livemint.com/news/digital-gold-hackers-struck-aditya-birla-capital-digital-weal-encyption-cyber-criminals-ey-india-data-privacy-11751192030975.html). The company said that it had...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-could-learn-a-lot-from-post-covid-19-spending-patterns-in-china
India must be forward looking, not defensive, as is evident frompost-Covid-19 spending-patterns
RN Bhaskar – 13 August, 2020
After a country has been hit by a pandemic, how should people spend money? Different cultures spend money differently. There are countries where...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/expect-2018-to-be-more-unsettling-than-2017/1178960
An unsettling 2018
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 30, 2017 07:52 am
Most marketmen are a bit confused about what the markets and the leading economies have in store for 2018. The first of such reports is already out. Credit Suisse...
When money become skittish
RN Bhaskar
Last week, a Bloomberg newsletter disclosed a very interesting fact. That as many as 107 companies overseas, accounting for a total value of $16.5 billion had been acquired by Indian entrepreneurs. This represented the largest...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/telecom-disruption-the-airwaves-are-buzzing
OneWeb and SpaceX could disrupt telecom in India
RN Bhaskar -- 18 February 2021
In the first week of 2021, short video on Elon Musk grabbed eyeballs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKUOkiKHD8U&feature=youtu.be). But in the sound and fury that surrounded the Jan 6 attack on...
R N Bhaskar
16 February 2015
Cities have their own charm. But each city has its own ugly underbelly too. In India that underbelly is the politics of vulnerability.
The game is played this way. Sell people a dream that the cities...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-a-novel-way-to-resolve-the-bank-npa-issue/1078090
Is there a way to handle NPAs and yet save the Indian banking system?
— By RN Bhaskar | Jun 01, 2017 06:47 am
Sometimes, it is important for finance ministers to consider the valuation approach in order to resolve the non-performing...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/future-of-consumption-in-fast-growth-consumer-marktets
India's consumption markets are its most seductive feature
By RN Bhaskar -- October 2, 2019
In the epic titled Odysseus, Ulysses decides that he would love to listen to the music of the world-acclaimed sirens. But he wanted to ensure that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-fertilisers-the-industry-scenario-is-changing-rapidly/1136859
Fertilisers in India is witnessing a transformation
— By RN Bhaskar | Sep 14, 2017 07:14 am
If there were any doubts about how the next elections will be won, the fertiliser industry provides some good pointers. Some of the policy decisions taken...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/telecom-market-rigging-despite-auctions-r-n-bhaskar/928112
Telecom: Ways for the government to rig it despite auctions
Within a couple of months, the government will embark on its largest spectrum auction. It will be auctioning 2,345 MHz of spectrum, the largest ever spectrum auction in the history...










































