https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-a-sightless-government-isnt-even-aware-where-gold-is-and-in-what-forms
Gold mining – II
Gold mining II: The government does not admit where gold can be mined
RN Bhaskar -- 24 December 2020
Indians love gold. And...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-crisis-in-the-classrooms-2108078
Crisis in the classrooms
Cut through the hype that governments like to spin out. You then realise that India’s growth story is quite shaky. Its...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-good-the-bad-and-the-positively-ugly-of-the-new-education-policy
National Education Policy: What about the teachers and the vision?
RN Bhaskar -- 20 August, 2020 (This article appeared in two parts in the print...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-falling-education-and-employability-levels-spell-trouble-for-india
Think education and employability, not divisive issues that weaken India
RN Bhaskar
Watch the presentations of some of the leading personalities in India, and you are...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/indias-medicare-damns-the-entire-country-r-n-bhaskar/898333
India's medicare: disallow cow slaughter, but not human slaughter
Most sociologists insist that the two crucial indicators which point to a government’s commitment to improving...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/doles-freebies-elections-and-the-absence-of-accountability/1496631
Lots more doles mean much more corruption
RN Bhaskar April 4, 2019
The dice was rolled two years ago when the present government permitted loan waivers...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-2-cezs-can-help-india-revive-from-its-continuous-decline
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-2-cezs-can-help-india-revive-from-its-continuous-decline
Policy watch
Agenda #2 – CEZs can bail India out of this economic crisis
(The entire series can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/)
RN Bhaskar
“For God's sake, let...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/does-anybody-care-for-the-dead/679682
Oct 08, 2015 12:16 am
The Sheena Bora murder brought the issue in sharp focus. The murder of poor innocents, as part of sacrifice...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/a-shrinking-middle-class-could-roil-india-badly
Shrinking middle class, warped policies, could hurt India badly
RN Bhaskar
The writing was on the wall. Poverty is on the march. All the slogans about...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-this-all-that-a-double-engine-growth-can-achieve-in-uttar-pradesh
Uttar Pradesh: A double engine policy means little if the tracks are poorly aligned
RN Bhaskar
The government is fond of talking about a double engine...









































