R N Bhaskar
6 July 2015
For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country. True, there were hurdles. Managing the government wasn’t easy. Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
9th March 2025
How India’s Judiciary got marginalised
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: CoPilot
On 23 February 2026, media headlines screamed out that the Supreme Court (SC) had pulled up NCERT for introducing, in the class VIII textbooks, a chapter...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/setting-up-of-a-world-class-centre-of-excellence-in-maritime-and-ship-building/1190624
CEMS: Training people for the waters
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 21, 2017 07:50 am
An announcement made by India’s ministry of shipping (MoS), in the last week of November 2017, went almost unnoticed by most people in the media. The...
India's problems make it stumble
RN Bhaskar
Last fortnight has not been good for India. True, the prime minister exulted over the role India could play in the G-20, but there are smoke signals all around warning of dangerous times ahead....
R N Bhaskar
February 16, 2014
As expected, smuggling of gold into India has continued. While on paper the current account deficit (CAD) appears to have been addressed, the smuggling in of gold has ended up causing immense damage – it has...
Are India’s milk markets up for sale?
RN Bhaskar
I have been this way before, and I am sure
To be this way again. Once again
Excerpt from a Neil Diamond song in the Serenade album
Update: After this article appeared, the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/rn-bhaskar-right-to-die-with-dignity-busting-myths/762536
Right to die with dignity: Busting myths
— By FPJ Bureau | Jan 21, 2016 12:21 am
Last week, the Supreme Court (SC) of India resurrected the debate on euthanasia. The topic had seared the conscience of the nation when, in March...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-rera-becomes-real-will-the-customer-still-be-king/1066031
Will diluted forms of RERA work?
— By RN Bhaskar | May 11, 2017 07:48 am
It was a concept that was being spoken of almost nine years ago. Finally, this government has made it happen. Nobody thought that the real-estate-developer lobby could...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-emerging-as-aircraft-repair-hub-r-n-bhaskar/1255629
Will the govt allow India's AIESL to emerge as Asia's aircraft repair hub?
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 12, 2018
Last month, the government announced that it had appointed the consultancy firm EY as the transaction advisor for Air India’s strategic sale...
BRICS’ gold backed currency could roil the markets
RN Bhaskar
The BRICS conference in Kazan, Russia, from October 22 to 24 2024, is just over. It brought gold centrestage.
BRICS has expanded from the original five – Brazil, Russia, India, China and...
