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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-aspirations-become-achievements-r-n-bhaskar/1367956
Barclays-Hurun-Rich-List-2018
Celebrating wealth generators
RN Bhaskar
It is when news like the Barclays Hurun Rich List get splashed around in the media that one actually begins to appreciate how rapidly India has been changing. The sharp increase in the number of wealthy...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/north-indias-demographic-time-bomb-r-n-bhaskar/825303
Will North India trigger the end of the India dream?
In an insightful document that Ambit Capital brought out on 5 April this year, (on Sizing India’s demographic bomb), the authors highlight a stark reality that confronts India.
It talks about...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/votebank-politics-northeast-on-the-boil-r-n-bhaskar/1326458
The Northeast turmoil could actually clean up votebank politics across India
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 02, 2018
The Nellie nightmare gripped India on February 2, 1983. Overnight, Assamese tribals surrounded three villages filled with Bangladeshi migrants. They slaughtered some 3,300 people...
Storing India’s gold overseas today is quite an embarrassment
On 14 June 2023, RBI governor, Shaktikanta Das was honoured with the title of ‘Governor of the Year’ for 2023 by Central Banking in London (https://www.livemint.com/news/india/rbi-chief-shaktikanta-das-honoured-with-governor-of-the-year-award-at-central-banking-awards-2023london-11686723134489.html). In the same year, the...
How will 2024 be for India and its economy?
By RN Bhaskar
Prognosis is judgement about how something is likely to develop in the future. It is based on symptoms that are visible today, and which may lead to consequences, unless...
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...
April 13, 2026
Indians begin return journey from the Middle East – remittances hit
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: CoPilot
All the grandiose plans that India has been chest-thumping about for the past decade are almost in fragments. The ideological...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-key-to-turkey-s-success-2055430
The key to Turkey’s success
Monday, 26 January 2015 - 6:30am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dna
R N Bhaskar
The country has cleaned up and revitalised its gold trade. Can India follow suit?
Turkey is the fourth-largest consumer of gold...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/r-n-bhaskar-pushing-e-payments-with-scam-potential-dangerous/1001041
ePayments and the scam potential
Try paying a bill of the MCGM (Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) -- the epayments way -- through its web portal. It will be a vexing experience.
Half the payment gateways do not work This could...
