https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-good-the-bad-and-the-positively-ugly-of-the-new-education-policy
National Education Policy: What about the teachers and the vision?
RN Bhaskar -- 20 August, 2020 (This article appeared in two parts in the print ediiton -- on 20 and 27 August)
Just glance through the main recommendations of the last...
When money become skittish
RN Bhaskar
Last week, a Bloomberg newsletter disclosed a very interesting fact. That as many as 107 companies overseas, accounting for a total value of $16.5 billion had been acquired by Indian entrepreneurs. This represented the largest...
https://www.dnaindia.com/business/column-policy-watch-teaching-the-honest-to-become-dishonest-1825420
Loan waivers promo0te dishonesty and desctroy fiscal discipline
R.N.Bhaskar - Apr 22, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has indicted the government for not ensuring that loan waiver schemes benefit the right people. Its sample survey of the...
http://m.firstpost.com/business/adanis-largest-solar-power-project-in-tn-is-good-but-rooftop-solar-is-the-way-ahead-3017408.html
Adani's TN solar project: Great achievement; but rooftop0 so9lar's better
RN Bhaskar Sep 23, 2016 15:59 IST
On Wednesday, 21 September, 2016, the Adani group launched the largest single location solar power project in the world. The group which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/nothing-is-quiet-on-the-farm-loan-waiver-front/1433503
The farm loan waiver front is getting messier
RN Bhaskar -- January 10, 2019
Fiscal discipline threatens to go entirely haywire – at least where some states are concerned.
And it has come in the form of farm-loan waivers. This author has...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-gold-mining-an-agenda-for-the-government
Gold mining IV
What the government should do?
RN Bhaskar
When it comes to gold, politicians, government officials, media and the general public can be quite misinformed to the point of hysteria.
Consider how – on 21 February 2020 -- an unsuspecting public...
Trump blows his own trumpet amid ruins
By RN Bhaskar
Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img
Ever since Donald Trump assumed the office of the President of the US (for a second time), matters appear to be getting worse for the US. But Trump...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-can-sebi-pick-up-the-broken-pieces-in-the-nse-chitra-ramakrishnan-case
Can SEBI pick up the broken pieces in the NSE-Chitra case?
By RN Bhaskar
On 11 February 2022, SEBI comes out with an order (No. WTM/AB/MRD/DSA/21/2021-22), authored by which Ananta Barua, Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of...
A water policy is crucial for India’s survival
RN Bhaskar
The Bing generated image above could be prophetic. India – and the world – could soon be in desperate search of water. India will feel the pain much more than the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/who-is-a-voter-pray-tell-us
Who is a voter, pray?
RN Bhaskar -- 9 January 2020
Battle-lines are drawn between those who object to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and those who support it. The roots of the CAA lie in the Assam Accord, which was...
