http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bad-loans-advantage-nbfcs-private-banks-r-n-bhaskar/1300805
Growth times for NBFCs and private banks
— By RN Bhaskar | Jun 21, 2018
Last week, in his annual letter to shareholders of Kotak Mahindra Bank, Uday Kotak, managing director, stated that private sector banks could increase their market share to as...
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...
R N Bhaskar
1 June 2015
On 25 March 2015, the Union Ministry of Shipping announced a revised vision of the Sagarmala concept that Prime Minister Vajpayee talked about more than 15 years ago. Among other things, it introduced – for...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-medicare-damns-the-entire-country-r-n-bhaskar/898333
India's medicare: disallow cow slaughter, but not human slaughter
Most sociologists insist that the two crucial indicators which point to a government’s commitment to improving the lot of its people are education and health. The first allows people to grow. ...
09 February 2026
US trade deal -- a sellout?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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A month ago, before the US trade deal with India -- we actually believed that India had rediscovered its spine. This was because
India had...
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Only jobs and good education can end the desperate times for the poor in India
RN Bhaskar
Before we get to the article on desperate times, there are two items on the agenda.
First, Festive greetings. My greetings can be...
Trump has not understood India’s agriculture
RN Bhaskar
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There’s a farmer agitation brewing (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/skm-announces-campaign-against-nda-in-bihar-protests-against-new-labour-codes-vances-visit/articleshow/120492163.cms). J D Vance, vice-president, USA, is being greeted by angry farmers with placards asking him to go back.
Farmer agitations can be extremely widespread, and...
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...
The peril that is Uttar Pradesh
By RN Bhaskar
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Look at Uttar Pradesh from any angle. There is just no way it could have been propelled to become one of the top ten GDP states in India (free...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/death-with-dignity-gains-legality-in-the-uk/1175058
India dithers over death with dignity
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 23, 2017 08:10 am
Last week, this newspaper talked about (http://www.freepressjournal.in/world/indian-origin-pharmacist-cleared-of-elderly-dads-murder/1172908) how a UK High Court judge, Justice Green, threw out a murder charge against a chemist. The chemist, a...
