Monday, April 6, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-biggest-laundromat-agriculture-r-n-bhaskar/884663 A 100 years' taxes can be found through India’s agriculture laundromat Is is Rs.2,000 lakh crore or Rs.674 lakh crore, or Rs.199 lakh crore? Any which way you look at it, the figures are disturbingly high!  But these are figures...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-this-all-that-a-double-engine-growth-can-achieve-in-uttar-pradesh Uttar Pradesh: A double engine policy means little if the tracks are poorly aligned RN Bhaskar The government is fond of talking about a double engine growth in Uttar Pradesh (UP).  In the recently tabled Union Budget, it talked about a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-does-anyone-even-know-how-many-deaths-take-place-in-india   The worrisome tale of unknown deaths in India RN Bhaskar – 23 April 2020 Death is a serious subject.  It becomes a looming grim reality when a pandemic is around.  Unfortunately, India does not even know how many have died. The seriousness...
Can the legend of Dr.Verghese Kurien be erased? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image source: NDDB 26 November 2025. It was a day for celebrations. It has also become a day for sadness. It was a day when the country...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/higher-education-sinks-lower-in-india/835496 Learn from China. Focus on schools; leave higher education alone The age of ironies has just begun. There was a time when India used to be a centre of learning and higher education.  Huen Tsang (known as Monk Xuan Zang in...
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...
The FM should look at the causes – Interest rates are the symptom RN Bhaskar In recent days the Finance Minister, N. Sitharaman has made public statements about the need for banks to lower lending rates (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/interest-rates-need-to-be-far-more-affordable-fm-nirmala-sitharaman/articleshow/115431945.cms). She said that the...
R N Bhaskar February 16, 2014 As expected, smuggling of gold into India has continued. While on paper the current account deficit (CAD) appears to have been addressed, the smuggling in of gold has ended up causing immense damage – it has...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-crisis-in-the-classrooms-2108078 Crisis in the classrooms Cut through the hype that governments like to spin out. You then realise that India’s growth story is quite shaky. Its education related numbers (see chart) tell a very bleak story. Of 100 students who went in...
New trade blocs form, India remains on the fringes RN Bhaskar Suddenly, gold has become important.  It always does, when there is economic uncertainty, and high inflation.  While it is early days to talk about inflation, everyone knows how uncertain the...