Friday, September 11, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-did-rbi-and-the-government-allow-the-npa-loot/1273740 Essar, Videocon and other NPAs - did RBI and the government abet this? RN Bhaskar | May 10, 2018 Bank NPAs are bleeding India. Yet, on 14 March 2018, the RBI governor, Urjit Patel bemoaned the fact that he had more power to...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-how-poor-are-india-s-slums-2065228 How poor are India’s slums? R N Bhaskar | Updated: Mar 2, 2015, 05:00 AM IST, DNA In order to understand what the numbers in the chart alongside signify, it is essential to first comprehend what the Census means...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/religion-and-the-quest-for-peace/1167005 Germany's quest for peace through religion — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 09, 2017 08:18 am This year marks the 500th year of the Reformation in Christianity. It was a major change that caused a split within the ranks of Christianity. The origins lie...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-folly-of-banning-futures-trading-in-commodities A primer for policymakers on commodities trading RN Bhaskar The government never tires of telling people that it wants to empower farmers.  It says it wants to empower commodities trading in futures, and commodity exchanges. This was the claim made by earlier...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-sibal-s-kiss-of-death-1385602 Thursday, 20 May 2010 The RTE and the foreign universities could ensure the collapse of school and higher education. Kapil Sibal, the Union minister for human resources development (HRD), is a man in a hurry.  That could explain why he has...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-roubles-getting-stronger You cannot wish the rouble away RN Bhaskar Yes, it is counter intuitive.  Many expected Russia to buckle after the first news of serious mistakes in its military strategy against Ukraine. Many may have thought or hoped that the bear would...
Waste-management: Sweden can show the way http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-lessons-we-can-learn-from-sweden-in-waste-management-2007453 Sweden is a small country. Its landmass is just 450,295 sq. km compared with 3,287,590 sq km for India. It population is even smaller – 9.6 million people compared with 1.2 billion for India. But...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/tripura-could-become-the-economic-powerhouse/1465094 Tripura could become the economic powerhouse for NE India RN Bhaskar - 21 Feb 2019 Ten years ago, nobody could have imagined economically backward Tripura to become the business hub for the entre North East India.  But geography, defence imperatives and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coronavirus-rules-are-for-others-not-for-politicians-or-elections Elections show contempt for pandemic rules RN Bhaskar -- 8 April 2021 On 30 March 2021, NITI Aayog member Dr V K Paul had some profoundly serious words (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1708790) for his media audience: "We are facing an increasingly severe and intensive...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-smuggling-turn-the-spotlight-from-kerala-to-govt-policies Gold smuggling - I Part II can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/10/gold-smuggling-ii-a-cleanup-is-urgently-needed/) A beneficiary of flawed government policies. RN Bhaskar There’s an apocryphal story about a man blinded because he stole the gold that he saw lying unattended on the table in his master’s...