Friday, June 5, 2026
RBI’s unwise dividend payout to the government By RN Bhaskar On 22 May 2024, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that it would be paying to the government a whopping sum of Rs.2.11 lakh crore rupees by way of dividend. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-headed-for-further-currency-depreciation/1470652 Unproductive spending could easily lead to further currency depreciation RN Bhaskar February 28, 2019 Turning and turning in a widening gyre//The falcon cannot hear the falconer.//Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold . . . . . WB Yeats, The Second Coming The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-energyministries-practice-to-deceive Are India's solar energy plans sought to be scuttled? RN Bhaskar  -- October 10, 2019 The performance of prime minister Narendra Modi, at the recently concluded United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York, was electrifying (pun intended). He reiterated before...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-how-to-plan-for-paid-parking-and-paid-hawking/1051060 A suggestion for solving Mumbai's problems of parking and hawking — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 13, 2017 09:40 am There’s a great deal of heat and dust in Mumbai.  And it is not only on account of the weather.  One of the...
R N Bhaskar 12 January 2015 In the first fortnight of December 2014, media reports talked about how poor policy-making had retarded investments of over Rs50,000 crore in the fertiliser industry. Such reports were apparently based on a report by a leading...
Policy watch India excelled in the art of earning its wealth, not plundering it By RN Bhaskar This is a story not just for historians, but for India’s policymakers.  It tells of how Indian entrepreneurship can be truly unlocked if they are...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-farmers-need-msp-till-commodity-markets-mature-and-become-reliable For desperate farmers, and broken commodity exchanges, MSP is the solution RN Bhaskar Ever since the government backtracked and repealed the three farm laws, there has been a concerted effort to show that the farmers were and remain misguided.  That Minimum...
09 February 2026 US trade deal -- a sellout? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Bloomberg A month ago, before the US trade deal with India -- we actually believed that India had rediscovered its spine.  This was because India had...
Budget 2023 looks great, but has little for agriculture which accounts for half of India’s jobs RN Bhaskar The claims are tantalizing.  The budget proposals look wonderful. But much of the expectation of growth in the economy will eventually depend on...