Saturday, April 4, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-focus-on-dignity-and-employment-not-distribution-of-doles Wealth generation and dignity more important than distribution of doles RN Bhaskar The finance minister has been singing praises (https://www.freepressjournal.in/india/india-kept-extreme-poverty-at-bay-in-pandemic-years-imf-working-paper) for the Prime Minister’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY). Under this scheme, free foodgrain was given away to needy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/2023-woes-government-myopia-has-hurt-the-economy-writes-rn-bhaskar 2023 woes - Government myopia has hurt the economy RN Bhaskar The first week of the new year had two bits of bad news for India.  First, the country witnessed data from the CMIE which showed that unemployment rate in India...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/looking-an-auto-gift-horse-in-the-mouth-rn-bhaskar/820291 Looking an auto gift-horse in the mouth? — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 07, 2016 12:37 am In January this year, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) made an interesting proposal to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The proposal...
R N Bhaskar 6 April 2015 Had the government really been serious about providing affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of society, all it had to do was to look at what Iran has done. If it thought that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/how-will-india-fund-its-solar-power-plans/840358 How will India fund its solar power plans? Modi’s electoral survival will require more jobs to be created.  Rooftop solar could offer a solution. India faces a huge problem.  It may not have the money or the ability to set...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-google-using-its-power-and-popularity-responsibly Google brush with the regulators in India But many answers are not forthcoming RN Bhaskar Google is expected to do the unusual all the time.  It has many firsts to its credit. It changed the search engine ecosystem.  The music video environment....
Behind India’s hoopla about GST and GDP is a grim reality By RN Bhaskar Lately, there has been a great deal of excitement over India’s GST (Goods and Services Tax) collections climbing by another 13% on a year-on-year basis. And people...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/do-more-with-global-private-investment/1409946 India could do with a lot more of global private investment RN Bhaskar December 6, 2018 India, like the rest of the world, has begun witnessing the growing role of private equity and investment players in this country. On the one...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-lessons-for-india-from-alibaba-about-ecommerce Alibaba, ecommerce have lessons for India . . . but will India be willing to learn? RN Bhaskar -- 21 January 2021 On December 24, 2020 authorities in China announced that they were investigating the Ant group which owns and manages Alibaba,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-g7-wants-to-ban-russian-gold-hah So is it the turn of gold markets now? RN Bhaskar Are the G7 countries doing what India describes through an adage? “Vinashakale vipreet buddhi” is a saying which – loosely translated -- means “During the time of destruction, man takes...