Monday, August 10, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-clean-up-the-gold-trade-quickly-as-a-national-priority Gold smuggling- II: Cleaning up the gold trade is a national priority RN Bhaskar (Part I of this series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/10/gold-smuggling-i-is-encouraged-by-flawed-government-policies/) Why should gold be a national priority? There are three reasons why gold assumes immense significance for the integrity...
Hindi Belt -I – Uttar Pradesh is plagued by death and poor governance RN Bhaskar  (the second part of this series can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2021/07/hindi-belt-ii-crimes-against-children-and-against-humanity/) "It is a state that does maximum number of vaccinations, , , , unprecedented ....
The quagmire effect – Quo Vadis? Image through CoPilot By RN Bhaskar Nothing resembles a quagmire more than the state of the US post President Trump’s pronouncements on immigration, and high tariffs. He thinks he could be bringing glory back to the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/pmp-and-pli-and-more-backdoor-licensing-moves Will the PLI scheme really boost India's economy? RN Bhaskar On 18 October, 2022, Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the RBI, India’s central bank, created a furor among investors when he harshly criticized the government’s PLI scheme (https://www.opindia.com/2022/10/raghuram-rajan-latest-india-manufacturing-hub-china-why-he-is-wrong/).  Rajan is currently...
The hype about India being the most attractive investment destination RN Bhaskar Suddenly, there is a rash of announcements proclaiming India to be the best investment destination in the world.  Such a view has been echoed by, among others by Outlook...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/the-nexus-between-pockets-and-the-noose/ The nexus between pockets and the noose — By RN Bhaskar | Oct 21, 2015 12:00 am Talk of death is there in the air.  There is abject apathy in registering the dead; then there are others who clamour for blood and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-games-regulators-play-the-rbi-is-becoming-capricious   Has regulator RBI been playing games? RN Bhaskar The RBI should pay heed to the following lines:. It’s no-go the Yogi-Man, it’s no-go Blavatsky, All we want is a bank balance and a bit of skirt in a taxi. By Louis McNeice, Bagpipe...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indian-railways-a-painful-chugging-aheadr-n-bhaskar/1016016 The crisis confronting Indian Railways By R N Bhaskar | Feb 09, 2017 10:00 am The recent Budget 2017 has made some key provisions for Indian Railways – as well as for other infrastructure projects. The Finance Minister hopes to spend as much...
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...
Hallucinations of power and wealth – Budget 2024 By RN Bhaskar The Bing generated image above is about a person’s hallucinations of power and wealth. In a way, the underpinnings of the Interim Budget 2024 presented before Parliament on 1 February...