Thursday, August 13, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/npa-albatross-around-banks-neck-rn-bhaskar/857767 The scourge of NPAs The markets are still reeling. They are trying to cope with the NPA burden. Estimated at Rs.4 lakh crore, NPAs threaten to become almost 1.5 times the cumulative market capitalization of these banks. Some of these...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-swiss-banks-and-black-money-r-n-bhaskar/1310375 India's black money may not be in Swiss Banks — By RN Bhaskar | Jul 05, 2018 Last week the political climate was charged with accusations that the government had actually begun encouraging the promotion of black money.  Prima facie, the charges...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-why-indias-investment-policies-are-perplexing-even-myopic Investments: India’s policies are perplexing, even misguided RN Bhaskar  --  30 April 2020 Deng Xiaoping, the former premier of the People’s Republic of China, had famously said "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-for-the-government-1-dont-meddle-with-the-dairy-sector Agenda for the government – #1. Dairy farming is the lifeblood of rural India RN Bhaskar (The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/) This article has two recommendations. The first is that the health minister needs to be replaced.  He promotes neither...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-madhya-pradesh-agricultural-marvel-has-miles-to-go/1287268 Irrigation served Madhya Pradesh's agriculture quite well — By RN Bhaskar | May 31, 2018 Madhya Pradesh is a state investors need to be watching very carefully.  During the past 12 years, the state has witnessed a blistering growth in agriculture of over...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/625996/The-Free-Press-Journal-Mumbai-Edition/29-Oct-2015?show=touch#page/10/1 Pending cases and political criminality — By R N Bhaskar | Oct 29, 2015 12:50 am 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,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-policy-watch-liberate-temples-from-government-control/756036 Policy Watch Temple trusts hold the key to social harmony Rabid Hindutva groups have been espousing the “protection” of Hindu values in all sorts of clumsy ways – from beef bans to ghar wapsi.  In fact, if these groups really want...
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-plunder-part-ii-how-finance-commission-weightages-were-tweaked-to-promote-profligacy-and-irresponsibilityhttps://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-plunder-part-ii-how-finance-commission-weightages-were-tweaked-to-promote-profligacy-and-irresponsibility India plunder – Part II: Tweaking rules to promote abet plunder through  profligacy and irresponsibility RN Bhaskar  - Sept 10, 2020 ================== The other parts of this series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/the-plunder-series/ ========================== Except for brief periods, much of North Indian history has been one...
R N Bhaskar 30 March 2015 Affordable houses of 300 sq feet be provided at just Rs 3 lakh! Really? Is it possible? What about both the availability and cost of land? The sad truth is that land was never the problem....
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-could-bankrupt-the-entire-world-in-a-years-time The world will burn in the US-Russia-Ukraine oil fires RN Bhaskar For people who think that the Ukraine-Russia war will soon get over, and life could go back to normal, there could be a big shock coming. Within six months or...