https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arvind-kejriwal-health-services-fight-against-corona
Kejriwal, health services, and India’s fight against the virus
RN Bhaskar -- 12 March 2020
India is excellent at cancelling visas, banning visitors suspected of coronavirus. It may be capable of hospitalizing some people who test positive for the current virus...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/tripura-could-become-the-economic-powerhouse/1465094
Tripura could become the economic powerhouse for NE India
RN Bhaskar - 21 Feb 2019
Ten years ago, nobody could have imagined economically backward Tripura to become the business hub for the entre North East India. But geography, defence imperatives and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-e-solutions-cannot-substitute-efficiency-integrity-and-intelligence
India stunts its own ecommerce potential
RN Bhaskar
India has always prided itself on its IT (information Technology) skills. It believes that it can become the world’s outsourcing hub for technology.
It believes that it could become the biggest ecommerce and esolutions...
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...
India's problems make it stumble
RN Bhaskar
Last fortnight has not been good for India. True, the prime minister exulted over the role India could play in the G-20, but there are smoke signals all around warning of dangerous times ahead....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/north-indias-demographic-time-bomb-r-n-bhaskar/825303
Will North India trigger the end of the India dream?
In an insightful document that Ambit Capital brought out on 5 April this year, (on Sizing India’s demographic bomb), the authors highlight a stark reality that confronts India.
It talks about...
27 April 2026
Solutions require political resolve
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India is in grave trouble. Dogs are baying for the government’s blood. Ten years of self-aggrandisement have resulted in a situation where India is now being marginalised. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/need-to-take-literacy-improvement-seriously-r-n-bhaskar/1282452
Very few states take literacy improvement seriously
— By RN Bhaskar | May 24, 2018
The government of India like to crow about how it has improved India’s literacy levels ever since independence. But when the numbers are studied carefully for a long...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gst-actually-promote-a-cashless-economy/1459489
GST can even encourage cash transactions
RN Bhaskar February 14, 2019
There’s a restaurant in Ballard Estate in Mumbai which is frequented by many upper middle-class customers. It is one of the few organised sector restaurants that refuses to accept payment...
Sept 14, 2026
Water mismanagement may cause the desertification of India
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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Politicians do not like to talk about this subject. Government spokespersons try to hush down any whispers about an impending crisis. Except for a...
