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R N Bhaskar 20 July 2015 "Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school.  School education is the most enduring way to...
The downward slide of the US dollar could presage the collapse of other countries By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed The US dollar is under siege. Linked to it are the fortunes of the US, Israel and Ukraine. Even the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-spectre-of-corruption-rises-grows-larger-and-is-fed-by-indian-politics Corruption grows larger, economy and legislation take a back seat RN Bhaskar In January 2020, alarm bells were already ringing.  India had s slipped from #78 in ranking on corruption last year to #80. The ranking was on the Corruption Perceptions...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/do-more-with-global-private-investment/1409946 India could do with a lot more of global private investment RN Bhaskar December 6, 2018 India, like the rest of the world, has begun witnessing the growing role of private equity and investment players in this country. On the one...
Government favours importers of pulses not Indian farmers By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image generated through CoPilot Last week farmers decided to approach the Supreme Court of India to seek redressal of the government’s pulses policy. Normally, the government takes...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-governments-myopia-will-blight-both-it-and-digital-payments-writes-rn-bhaskar Slowdown in IT, discomfort with digital payments RN Bhaskar The government loves thumping its chest when digital payments soar.  This was, after all,  one of the stated objectives of the  much-touted JAM Trinity - Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile (https://pib.gov.in/FeaturesDeatils.aspx?NoteId=151163&ModuleId%20=%202).  As...
India witnesses flight of capital and millionaires RN Bhaskar The image has been generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img In a way, this was to be expected.  Geopolitical turmoil has resulted in political uncertainty about the future of several economies. Millionaires and capital which...
Modi warms up to China By RN Bhaskar Image generated through  https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img In some ways, one could say that Prime minister Modi has the proverbial nine lives of a cat. His visit to Tianjin in China this September could provide him a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/bringing-more-transparency-in-gold-trade/805277 Gold, PAN, excise duty, hallmarking and the government During the last two months, the gold trade has been agitated enough to go on strike and down shutters on at least two occasions. It has been protesting against the government’s newly...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-lost-mantra-of-grow-more-with-less-1949931 R N Bhaskar | Updated: Jan 13, 2014, 08:54 AM IST, DNA   The agony of fragmentation of agricultural land holdings in India is an old story. What is alarming is that, today, almost 67% comprise small holdings –...