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...
Who will bridge promise and performance?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Picture source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHRpM2iNU
Government engineers and supervisors can be terribly incompetent even capricious. Two data points provide ample evidence of this. The first is how two parts of a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/the-world-loves-gold-india-confused-amid-uncertain-economic-situation
India is confused about dealing with gold
RN Bhaskar -- January 16, 2020
In the aftermath of the US armed forces assassinating General Soleimani of Iran, prices of gold spiked. The more the world becomes an uncertain place, the more people...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/banker-scamster-and-hidden-hand-make-merry-r-n-bhaskar/1345574
Protecting the banker -- and the invisible hand
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 30, 2018
There is a sense of disquiet among India’s policy-watchers. Such anxieties were confirmed when they saw the data presented before the Lok Sabha on 3 August 2018...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/education-matters-thats-why-kejri-matters
Education lessons from Kejriwal
RN Bhaskar -- 5 March 2020
The recent Delhi elections confirmed one thing – that the formidable election machine Modi and the BJP had built was no match for the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Like all...
Policy watch
India excelled in the art of earning its wealth, not plundering it
By RN Bhaskar
This is a story not just for historians, but for India’s policymakers. It tells of how Indian entrepreneurship can be truly unlocked if they are...
https://m.freepressjournal.in/article/india/priorities-for-the-govt-war-bihar-or-atma-nirbharta/915423be-fdae-459f-b88d-87399e5db574
Priorities for the govt: war, Bihar, or atma nirbharta?
RN Bhaskar -- July 9, 2020
Politics can be a great distorter of truths because it is often based on optics. And as Henri Bergson said about comedy, it is like froth. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jatin-mehta-files-a-usd-5-billion-suit-against-de-beers-stanchart-and-kroll
Kroll's refusal to face facts
The Jatin Mehta submissions before the Surat court have squarely put the blame on Kroll, which it says acted in concert with De Beers and SCB. Also see report at https://asiaconverge.com/2022/07/jatin-mehta-sues-debeers-stanchart-kroll-for-5-bn/
From the court documents, it...
Falling oil prices, remittances and jobs
Feb 04, 2016 12:00 am
http://www.freepressjournal.in/falling-oil-prices-remittances-and-jobs-rn-bhaskar/771956
Any which way you look at it, non-resident-Indians (NRIs) have done this country proud. With hardly any government support programme, through sheer grit and enterprise, these NRIs have ventured...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/ailing-airlines-victim-of-the-governments-meddling-hand/1531739
Airlines become victims of the government’s meddling hand
RN Bhaskar May 23, 2019
By now, almost every industry analyst has begun to write-off Jet Airways. Jet had big dreams. It had benefitted from many favourable government policy decisions – right from...
