Friday, October 30, 2026
Niti Aayog claims that poverty declined by 24.8 crore in nine years By RN Bhaskar The Bing generated image above shows all sorts of goodies being showered down on the people below.  It is an adaptation of the legendary Indian rope...
R N Bhaskar 27 April 2015 Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful trip to three countries. Each of these trips is aimed at achieving two objectives. First, to improve India’s relations with some of the most advanced and...
Fact vs fiction about advantages and strengths can be quite jarring for India By R.N. Bhaskar India makes tall claims. However, a look at hard numbers shows how it has spurned natural advantages that it had. The country cannot prosper if...

How will 2024 be for India and its economy? By RN Bhaskar Prognosis is judgement about how something is likely to develop in the future.  It is based on symptoms that are visible today, and which may lead to consequences, unless...
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...
The malaise in higher education RN Bhaskar If one goes by news items – often peddled out by the government -- the country is on a roll.  All sectors are doing well.  That includes higher education. And India should become the...
New trade blocs form, India remains on the fringes RN Bhaskar Suddenly, gold has become important.  It always does, when there is economic uncertainty, and high inflation.  While it is early days to talk about inflation, everyone knows how uncertain the...
Lectures by RN Bhaskar The rural Economy Future of Agriculture series -- Lectures Date Title  URL 16-07-2020 Why Agriculture matters for India| Future of Agriculture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqVLmf2G4g&t=295s 23-07-2020 Milk is the real backbone of India's rural economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JY5YjWsBo  30-07-2020 Animal Husbandry -Economics and Fallacies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGyLxdHFQMw 06-08-2020 The emerging wealth generator in farming is vegetables and fruit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gqM0nQObg&t=55s 13-08-2020 Rural...

India’s slip is showing- underperformance is the culprit RN Bhaskar India has been witness to a lot of bluster and chest-thumping. But recent numbers have begun to highlight the country’s underperformance.  One of the first signs is the slowing of exports...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/government-paying-lip-service-to-solar-and-ev-players/1426663 Is the government serious about solar power and EVs? RN Bhaskar December 27, 2018 Last week, possibly in order to soften the pain for an electorate in the months preceding general elections, the government (through its finance ministry) reduced GST on...