US dollar: rumble stumble
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: Gemini AI
The rumbling is now perceptible. The solid ground on which the US stood is now shaking under the feet. When Nixon nixed the gold standard by ending the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-how-aadhaarpan-could-threaten-banking-and-financial-integrity
Article 139AA has created a big money laundering machine in India
RN Bhaskar
On 27 October 2020, there was a Twitter chat— “Curious case of PAN-Aadhaar linkage” -- that was organised by the prestigious Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). It raised...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-pumps-nddb-and-the-birth-of-pm-kusum-2
Solar pumps and water mismanagement -- NDDB and KUSUM
RN Bhaskar – 29 August, 2019
The introduction of solar pumps in the Indian market was thought to be the perfect solution for aiding farmers in arid regions with neither electricity nor...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/good-governance-begins-at-home-itself
India's problem with governance
RN Bhaskar – 07 November, 2019
In July 2019, the government passed the The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019. It also pointed to the rule book and to the penalties that could be levied in case corporate governance...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-india-hope-for-speedier-justice
Judiciary - Part IV: The curse of judicial delays
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar
India has a way with words to disguise its lack of intention. In its attempt to justify its judicial...
R N Bhaskar
17 August 2015
The stench of bribery is up in the air once again. This time, it is disclosure that a US company, Louis Berger, paid bribes to two Goa legislators to win a contract. At least one...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-rbi-points-to-very-crucial-chinks-r-n-bhaskar/1354870
Economic growth and the RBI
— By RN Bhaskar | Sep 13, 2018
The latest annual report of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is quite candid about its assessment of demonetisation. More cash has come back into the system than had been...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rural-incomes-worse-than-previously-imagined-r-n-bhaskar/1340980
The rural sector earns very little says Nabard
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 23, 2018
The latest Nabard survey on All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17 -- https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417NABARD-Repo-16_Web_P.pdf -- points to a bigger farm crisis than had been imagined earlier.
Just take...
Policy lapses could revive the 1990 spectre once again
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India is at the proverbial fork. There is a road, full of obstacles, which could lead to Viksit Bharat (the mirage politicians...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/education-matters-thats-why-kejri-matters
Education lessons from Kejriwal
RN Bhaskar -- 5 March 2020
The recent Delhi elections confirmed one thing – that the formidable election machine Modi and the BJP had built was no match for the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Like all...
