The Census is needed urgently post elections
By RN Bhaskar
The Bing-generated image about elections suggests many things – the watchful eyes of the lion looms over the election booth. The peaceful wait of citizens outside polling booths. The Ashoka lion...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulatory-games-2-how-sebi-muddies-the-waters
Regulatory games2
SEBI muddies the waters
It’s no go the merry-go-round, it’s no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.
Bagpipe music (1938) by Louis MacNeice
RN Bhaskar
A look at recent developments at The Securities Exchange...
The government creates godmen, destroys values, in pursuit of power and wealth
RN Bhaskar
Last week the police finally registered an FIR (First Information Report, a document which must be prepared before criminal investigations begin) against priest and ‘godman’ Yati Narsinghanand...
Reinsurance and the dangers for India
RN Bhaskar
Reinsurance markets are in a state of confusion. They cannot comprehend what could have driven the IRDAI (an acronym for Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India -- https://irdai.gov.in/) to come up with...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/misplaced-zeal-for-environment-and-water
Cities haven't yet learnt how to deal with water and the environment
RN Bhaskar – 18 July, 2019
Crisis, it is believed, brings out the best – or the worst – in people. So it was when Mumbai experienced its predictable...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-state-as-slumlord-2068903
R N Bhaskar
16 March 2015
Can a government become a slum developer? The proposition sounds absurd. Governments should be promoting what is legal. A slum is usually a collection of dwellers squatting illegally on property. Governments plead helplessness. Are these...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-the-lure-of-online-groceries-is-growing-stronger-and-stronger
Online groceries to witness booming times ahead
RN Bhaskar – 16 April 2020
The business of online groceries has been growing at 67% year on year.
There are several factors that have propelled this growth. First, India as a consumption economy. Second,...
