http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-rot-begins-at-schools-2105831
The rot begins at schools
"Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school. School education is the most enduring way to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/go-chanda-kochar-please-go/1269603
Why Chanda Kochar must go
RN Bhaskar | May 03, 2018
Last week witnessed the first public appeal being made by mainstream media asking Chanda Kochar (currently managing director of ICICI Bank) to step down from her post. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/icici-deserves-a-statesman-not-a-leader-in-hiding-letter-to-chanda-kochhar-from-another-ceo/articleshow/63893641.cms?curator=alphaideas&utm_source=alphaideas). In what was captioned...
NCERT and education are blighted in India
RN Bhaskar
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In the last week of April 2025, the government funded NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training -- https://ncert.nic.in/) came out with an astounding modification in the History...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-maharashtra-wants-to-raise-money-through-an-unequal-na-tax-even-while-waiving-other-taxes
Maharashtra's new, unfair and controversial, real estate tax laws
RN Bhaskar
In December 2021, the government of Maharashtra began sending non-agricultural tax (NA Tax) demand notices to residents in some parts of Mumbai. This was based on legislations that the state...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-house-that-for-a-change-2070936
House that for a change?
This is a story meant for India’s policymakers.
Like most stories, it has a moral too. It is particularly relevant for all those who believe in “Make in India”, in the basic minimum dignity that any...
Bogus Aadhaar cards imperil both Census and elections
RN Bhaskar
Shri EAS Sarma has responded to this article by writing to the Election Commission. You can find his letter at https://asiaconverge.com/2023/04/india-elections-under-threat/
To appreciate this article better, it is important to take a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-good-the-bad-and-the-positively-ugly-of-the-new-education-policy
National Education Policy: What about the teachers and the vision?
RN Bhaskar -- 20 August, 2020 (This article appeared in two parts in the print ediiton -- on 20 and 27 August)
Just glance through the main recommendations of the last...
India must look beyond GDP to become a great nation
By RN Bhaskar with inputs from Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India’s prime minister and his ministers have got into the constant refrain of telling people that India will become...
Be careful! Spouting hopeful figures about the economy is not enough.
RN Bhaskar
If one listens to the euphoric outpourings of India’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran, the country’s economy is in great shape. Just last week he exuded...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/five-thriving-myths-about-waste-management
Five things about waste management that we are mistaken about
RN Bhaskar -- September 19, 2019
The last few months, politicians of all colours have begun making all kind of pronouncements about waste management. It is therefore time that someone pointed...
