Thursday, March 19, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-what-do-rentals-say-about-maximum-city-mumbai/1163394 Mumbai's high rentals are a sign of sickness, not health — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 02, 2017 07:04 am Ask most people about expensive cities.  They will tell you that New York is an expensive place to stay in. Or London. Or...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-falling-education-and-employability-levels-spell-trouble-for-india Think education and employability, not divisive issues that weaken India   RN Bhaskar Watch the presentations of some of the leading personalities in India, and you are persuaded to believe that India’s moment has arrived, that it is now unstoppable. Great words,...
Can the Election Commission duck these queries? RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img The government, in concert with the Election Commissioner, has been quite active in pushing through the “SIR”.  The matter is now pending before the Supreme Court. Irrespective of the court’s...
China develops Africa both as Plan B for itself and for the world RN Bhaskar The future of the world will lie in making Africa grow.  That is what China has been doing all along.  That is what India should be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-folly-of-banning-futures-trading-in-commodities A primer for policymakers on commodities trading RN Bhaskar The government never tires of telling people that it wants to empower farmers.  It says it wants to empower commodities trading in futures, and commodity exchanges. This was the claim made by earlier...
In the Bing generated image above, the onlooker observes how pygmies try to weigh down a larger and more powerful person.  That can be a terrible tragedy when the big and powerful are sought to be pulled down by...
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...
Trump’s lies about Venezuela By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image source: Market Watch January 3, 2026, was a red-letter day – for Venezuela, the US, the world and international law. All of them will now face consequences that will go...
R N Bhaskar March 3, 2014 The Maharashtra government has just tabled a bill to change the cutoff date for recognising slums - from 1995 to 2000. This is against a Bombay High Court order, which was challenged by the state,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-what-factors-helped-bangladesh-overtake-india-in-per-capita-income Bangladesh could teach India a thing or two RN Bhaskar A few weeks ago, India observers were confronted with numbers that the Indian government had said, unofficially though, would never materialise.  But Bangladesh was already nipping at India’s heels even in...