Monday, January 19, 2026
NMDC’s lust for foreign gold is mysterious indeed NMDC rushes to seek gold overseas, when goldfields and mine development are pending in India. RN Bhaskar On 5 November, NMDC made an unusual announcement – captured by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-nmdc-subsidiary-legacy-iron-ore-mine-gold-australia-2023-11-05/).  It said that it...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/death-with-dignity-gains-legality-in-the-uk/1175058 India dithers over death with dignity — By RN Bhaskar | Nov 23, 2017 08:10 am Last week, this newspaper talked about (http://www.freepressjournal.in/world/indian-origin-pharmacist-cleared-of-elderly-dads-murder/1172908) how a UK High Court judge, Justice Green, threw out a murder charge against a chemist.  The chemist, a...
Bogus Aadhaar cards imperil both Census and elections RN Bhaskar Shri EAS Sarma has responded to this article by writing to the Election Commission.  You can find his letter at https://asiaconverge.com/2023/04/india-elections-under-threat/ To appreciate this article better, it is important to take a...
Derivatives, USA and Armageddon By RN Bhaskar In a way, the world has been too gentle with the US. It has allowed that country to play around with other people’s money, to create and abrogate treaties at will, to stoutly deny...
India will be promoting poverty — a hole for people to fall into By RN Bhaskar Image generated suing https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img When it comes to development and increasing the prosperity of common folk, India needs to take a lesson or two from what...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-world-poverty-clock-pointers-for-india/1069774 India could learn a few things from the World Poverty Clock — By RN Bhaskar | May 18, 2017 08:13 am Asia could be getting out of poverty faster than many countries in the developing world.  This -- and a great deal of...
R N Bhaskar 10 August 2015 The brittleness of impatience crackles. There is the familiar irritable fretfulness of politicians and industry captains as they chafe against the RBI’s reluctance to ease interest rates a bit more.  Unspoken, yet unmistakably implied, is...
R N Bhaskar 20 April 2015 Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places —WH Auden Can religion influence business? Yes indeed! A good indicator is the decline in cow population in Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh....
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...
New trade blocs form, India remains on the fringes RN Bhaskar Suddenly, gold has become important.  It always does, when there is economic uncertainty, and high inflation.  While it is early days to talk about inflation, everyone knows how uncertain the...