23 March 2026
The UN has not listed war criminals
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Part 1 of this article can be found here
Why did the UN not put out a list of criminals? That's because the UN is...
R N Bhaskar
23 March 2015
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 Indian must enjoy, in affordable housing, and...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-has-begun-to-make-waves/
India has begun to make waves
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 11, 2015 01:11 am
There’s a lot going on in media nowadays that makes one believe that India is going downhill. It could be an orchestrated approach to malign the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/cmcm/economic-policy-little-vision-less-consultation
Auto sector revival key to economic revival
RN Bhaskar – August 22, 2019
Budget reviews are normally written within a fortnight after the papers are tabled in Parliament. This belated review comes in the wake of sharply declining sales, slashing of...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bribery-at-all-levels-in-its-five-shades-r-n-bhaskar/867684
Five shades of bribery
The Modi government prides itself on on trying to usher in corruption-free and bribery-free governance. Maybe someone should tell its legislators that the best way to clean up governance is by making bribe-giving legal.
This is what...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/china-wants-the-world-to-sit-up-and-listen-to-it
China prepares itself for the future
RN Bhaskar -- 21 November 2019
In some ways, China has suddenly woken up to the need to let the world know how big its plans really are. Hitherto it let is performance do the...
NINJAs on hire with no education, no income
By RN Bhaskar
Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
― Heinrich Heine
The crazed public lynchings and burnings have begun. The depressing part is that they, like many other...
India’s net FDI is a pointer to a deeper malaise
By RN Bhaskar
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On May 23, 2025, media headlines announced (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-net-fdi-crashes-96-5-in-fy25-lowest-on-record/articleshow/121353121.cms) that India’s net FDI had plummeted by a shocking 96%. This was the lowest it had slipped. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-import-duties-need-to-be-streamlined-rn-bhaskar/1372617
Gold import duties begin to attract attention
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 11, 2018
Last fortnight, the government of India released a list of 19 items where import duties had been raised.
What was interesting was that despite a clamour from the trade...
