Friday, August 21, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-what-factors-helped-bangladesh-overtake-india-in-per-capita-income Bangladesh could teach India a thing or two RN Bhaskar A few weeks ago, India observers were confronted with numbers that the Indian government had said, unofficially though, would never materialise.  But Bangladesh was already nipping at India’s heels even in...
R N Bhaskar 19 January 2015 Any way you look at it, the horticulture sector is a miracle which Indians seldom think about. Take production figures first.  In tonnage terms, horticulture has already surpassed cereal production.  And do bear in mind, that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-worlds-best-universities-india-continues-to-slip-rn-bhaskar/940451 Policy Watch India slips on education: The Times Higher Education World University rankings Rn bhaskar Last week, The Times Higher Education World brought out its university rankings for 2016-2017.  This is a list that all aspiring universities of the world watch, because it tells students which...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/increasing-interdependence-of-japan-and-india/ Increasing interdependence of Japan and India — By RN Bhaskar | Dec 16, 2015 12:00 am Last week, Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, made his second trip to India during the Modi government’s tenure. On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked...
R N Bhaskar 23 February 2015 Almost everybody is now reconciled to the inevitability of urbanisation. Even as early as January 2007, Goldman Sachs had in its economics paper (No152) on “India’s Rising Growth Potential” pointed out how the 21st century would...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/will-rceps-interests-turn-the-white-revolution-dark The twists and turns on RCEP and milk RN Bhaskar – 17 October, 2019 There’s an ill-wind blowing through the corridors of the ministry of commerce lately.  The first indications of the nature of troubled winds were evident three months ago...
Is FSSAI playing games with consumers once again? By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img FSSAI (the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India -- https://fssai.gov.in/) is also known as the Food Authority.  It  comes under the ministry of Health & Family...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-markets-and-the-economy Markets and the Indian economy RN Bhaskar One could call it bittersweet. There are plenty of reasons for feeling happy, even euphoric. By Friday last week, the stockmarkets had revived – after initially slumping. The BSE Sensex had crossed the 60,000...
Trump has not understood India’s agriculture RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/ There’s a farmer agitation brewing (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/skm-announces-campaign-against-nda-in-bihar-protests-against-new-labour-codes-vances-visit/articleshow/120492163.cms). J D Vance, vice-president, USA, is being greeted by angry farmers with placards asking him to go back. Farmer agitations can be extremely widespread, and...
The malaise in higher education RN Bhaskar If one goes by news items – often peddled out by the government -- the country is on a roll.  All sectors are doing well.  That includes higher education. And India should become the...