Thursday, June 18, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-focus-on-dignity-and-employment-not-distribution-of-doles Wealth generation and dignity more important than distribution of doles RN Bhaskar The finance minister has been singing praises (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/india-kept-extreme-poverty-at-bay-in-pandemic-years-imf-working-paper) for the Prime Minister’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under this scheme, free foodgrain was given away to needy...
Education in India has a long way to go  RN Bhaskar Politicians love to claim that India can become the teacher for the entire world.  They use the term Vishwaguru (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/next-5-yrs-will-make-india-vishwa-guru-modi-in-gujarat/articleshow/69510732.cms) . Even states like Uttar Pradesh that have done miserably...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/demonetisation-short-term-brilliance-long-term-pain/973092 Policy Watch Will demonetisation work? Or will it erode the rupee? Rn bhaskar On the night of 8 November, Prime minister Modi dropped a bombshell. He announced through a national TV address that the government was demonetising Rs.500 and Rs.1,000 notes from...
Global growth requires much more than GDP and population By RN Bhaskar On 9 December, 2023, a senior minister of the Indian government spoke at an industry forum.  He exhorted industrialists in the audience to collaborate further with the Government to...
Farm protests & Kurien’s Amul offer lessons to be learnt By RN Bhaskar On 23 February 2024, the web was flooded with advertisements showing the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Amul, the largest agricultural brand in India (and even Asia)....
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...
Mumbai’s traffic police has huge gaps in its service delivery RN Bhaskar Mumbai has a glorious record of having an efficient police force.  But, over the years, the starch in the upright image of the force is getting crumpled.  Even past...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-a-petition-to-the-rbi-surging-bank-charges/1039464 Policywatch Is the RBI indifferent to surging bank charges? Rn bhaskar Officials at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may be familiar with an image that is being WhatsApp-ed around lately. It says “If you have a gun, you can rob a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/fdi%e2%80%88mixed-smoke-signals-continue-to-perplex/1140625 Will FDI finally begin to roll into India? — By RN Bhaskar | Sep 21, 2017 07:09 am If one looks back, 2014 was a year when many people had a great deal of hope and expectation.  FDI was supposed to pour into...