R N Bhaskar
February 3, 2014
Eventually, all ratings of domestic companies depend sorely on sovereign ratings. That was something Pradeep Shah, the founding managing director of Crisil, was never tired of reminding investors.
Translated, it means that if the sovereign rating...
The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more. Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is the accusation that the...
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...
India exim: Cut the hype. India is bleeding
RN Bhaskar
Politicians love to focus on their achievements, but remain silent about their shortcomings. This is also true of India’s recently announced Foreign Trade Policy for 2023 (https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/govt-releases-foreign-trade-policy-2023-eyes-2-trn-export-target-by-2030-123033100329_1.html). The policy itself is...
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...
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,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/694252
Pending cases - how the mafia gains legitimacy
There is one question most social scientists have been grappling with for ages – what is the difference between a government and the mafia? After all, both collect protection money, though the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/business/budget-2018-the-spirit-is-quite-willing-but-the-flesh-is-terribly-weak/1214090
Budget 2018 is high on intent, but weak on the underpinnings
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 02, 2018 11:27 am
As Budgets go, this budget could mark a watershed. It has all the ingredients India needs. It talks about ways to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bribery-at-all-levels-in-its-five-shades-r-n-bhaskar/867684
Five shades of bribery
The Modi government prides itself on on trying to usher in corruption-free and bribery-free governance. Maybe someone should tell its legislators that the best way to clean up governance is by making bribe-giving legal.
This is what...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/recounting-the-great-indian-bank-robbery-rn-bhaskar/789412
Recounting the great Indian bank robbery
Feb 25, 2016 02:13 am
The biggest players, goes a common saying, are often the most shameless. This was reinforced when data came rolling out of the presentations made last fortnight by S.S.Mundhra, deputy...
