https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-blighted-vision-about-gold-mining
Gold mining – part I
Can India have better policies relating to gold mining
RN Bhaskar -- 17 December 2020
Last week, media headlines screamed out information about the ‘theft’ of 100 kg of gold kept in the CBI vaults. An inhouse...
The hype about India being the most attractive investment destination
RN Bhaskar
Suddenly, there is a rash of announcements proclaiming India to be the best investment destination in the world. Such a view has been echoed by, among others by Outlook...
India must find new ways to cope with global fragmentation
RN Bhaskar
There is global fragmentation all around. And India has already begun reconsidering many of the policies it had introduced and was quite smug about. Two developments of last week...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/china-wants-the-world-to-sit-up-and-listen-to-it
China prepares itself for the future
RN Bhaskar -- 21 November 2019
In some ways, China has suddenly woken up to the need to let the world know how big its plans really are. Hitherto it let is performance do the...
Trump blows his own trumpet amid ruins
By RN Bhaskar
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Ever since Donald Trump assumed the office of the President of the US (for a second time), matters appear to be getting worse for the US. But Trump...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/maharashtras-agricultural-woes-will-continue/1475943
Maharashtra and its water diversion
RN Bhaskar – 7 March, 2019
Maharashtra has one of the highest farmer suicide rates in India. It also has the maximum number of farm agitations in India.
And the reason is quite clear if one studies...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gold-be-made-less-attractive-for-smugglers-en-bhaskar/1101981
Can the government make gold a cleaner, more profitable, business in India?
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 13, 2017 07:16 am
Listen carefully to the words that are constantly being uttered by government spokesmen. They talk about driving black-marketeers to the ground....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/rn-bhaskar-relevance-of-amul-in-indias-page-part-1/742104
Relevance of Amul in India’s page – Part 1
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 24, 2015 12:08 am
All through the 1980s, Verghese Kurien, the “Milkman of India” kept telling people that this country had a natural strategic advantage with milk...
http://www.firstpost.com/india/euthanasia-debate-relieving-a-human-life-from-agony-is-not-himsa-2783646.html
Maharashtra’s misdemeanours
The Income tax data released by the government of India last fortnight has thrown up some very interesting figures (http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855).
Start with the all-India data for the states (ignoring the data for Union territories and for the newly...
Will debt spur India’s GDP growth this time despite textiles languishing?
RN Bhaskar
On 31 October, 2023, the RBI governor, Shaktikanta Das, stated that the growth momentum in the economy continues to be strong, and that the GDP number for the...
