Policy Watch

https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-how-maharashtras-sugar-lobbies-and-private-milk-producers-plan-to-further-bankrupt-the-state Maharashtra’s sugar lobbies now support private milk producers for more subsidies RN Bhaskar – 6 August 2020 For the past fortnight, Maharashtra’s milk producers have been staging protests on the roads.  On several occasions, they highlighted their grievances by pouring out...

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...

16 Feb 2026 India faces an exodus of money, people, and values By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Gemini Even as Piyush Goyal, Union minister for commerce,  continues to be exultant about his New Zealand and EU FTAs and his trade...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/water-tankers-can-make-messrs-vijay-mallya-nirav-modi-and-rahul-choksi-blanch Water tankers make more money that the biggest alleged scamsters RN Bhaskar -- 20 June 2019 When it comes to making money, Mumbai’s water tanker overlords could teach Messrs. Mallya, Modi and Choksi a thing or two. Water tankers make more...

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-the-cow-jumps-over-the-moon-1810578 The cow jumps over the moon Wednesday, 13 March 2013 - 10:25am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna India enjoys a major advantage over other countries – it has the largest cattle population in the world. This was partly due...

A hollowed-out India needs an economic reboot By RN Bhaskar Hollowed-out is a phrase that refers to something being taken out, leaving the shell to be filled with anything or nothing. India is being hollowed out.  Its ability to be entrepreneurial...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-makes-farmers-more-sarkar-nirbhar-not-atma-nirbhar-writes-rn-bhaskar The government makes farmers more sarkar nirbhar, not atma nirbhar RN Bhaskar Last week, the government shocked economy watchers when it announced an extension of the ban on futures trading in select agricultural commodities for a year.  It would appear that...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-indian-banks-seek-to-fatten-themselves/1035472 Policy Watch Indian banks' disdain for small depositors Rn bhaskar Last week was a turbulent one for the banking industry.  It began with the country’s largest bank,  State Bank of India (SBI), announcing an increase in cash withdrawal charges for its customers....

China develops Africa both as Plan B for itself and for the world RN Bhaskar The future of the world will lie in making Africa grow.  That is what China has been doing all along.  That is what India should be...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-fresh-evidence-confirms-agreement-on-limiting-nato-in-russia-ukraine-crisis Ukraine - The US rings the death knell for global banking and business RN Bhaskar This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper -- TS. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’   Ever since the Ukraine Russia US conflict...