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. ...
India and China warm up to each other. Russia could be the marriage-maker
RN Bhaskar
The last two months have been turbulent for India. In a way, this is a microcosm of what the world has witnessed during the past two...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/high-costs-bedevil-india
Judicial delays, import duties and corruption make business a high cost affair
RN Bhaskar – 11 July 2019
When Prime minister Modi won at the hustings with a thumping majority, there was a resurgence of hope. Maybe, Modi 2.0 would be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-may-be-pushing-a-wrong-trade-policy
India's shrinking trade volumes are worrying signals
RN Bhaskar
Government spokesmen have been crowing about the amazing measures that the government has introduced to ensure an economic revival. Last week, D Subbarao, former RBI governor, went on record stating that India’s...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/declining-global-gdp-spells-trouble/1438297
Declining global GDP spells trouble for India
RN Bhaskar -- 17 January 2019
For a long time, Indians liked to believe that their country was insulated against global developments....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/maharashtras-specious-morality-and-its-sexual-crimes/1443790
Maharashtra’s specious morality and its sex crimes
RN Bhaskar – 24 January 2019
For the past one week, Maharashtra has been playing the morality card, in trying to whip up public sentiment against dance bars. It is furious with the Supreme...
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...
The government is keen on strengthening Aadhaar. That will allow it to effectively implement its Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) programme across the country.
But there is a gaping hole in the entire process. India has been counting only its living....
The quagmire effect – Quo Vadis?
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By RN Bhaskar
Nothing resembles a quagmire more than the state of the US post President Trump’s pronouncements on immigration, and high tariffs. He thinks he could be bringing glory back to the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/nothing-is-quiet-on-the-farm-loan-waiver-front/1433503
The farm loan waiver front is getting messier
RN Bhaskar -- January 10, 2019
Fiscal discipline threatens to go entirely haywire – at least where some states are concerned.
And it has come in the form of farm-loan waivers. This author has...
