The government is keen on strengthening Aadhaar. That will allow it to effectively implement its Direct Benefits Transfer (DBT) programme across the country.
But there is a gaping hole in the entire process. India has been counting only its living....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-tales-of-equity-and-debt-in-india-since-2014/1031646
Equity markets soar; but banks languish for the want of customers who want debt
— By RN Bhaskar | Mar 09, 2017 09:42 am
India perplexes. That’s an adage that many have grown to live with. And nothing confirms this perplexing picture...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-time-india-reshaped-its-exim-strategies/1491174
India's EXIM needs restructuring
RN Bhaskar March 28, 2019
Within the next few months, India’s policymakers will have to decide how to restructure India’s Exim policies. This will be necessitated by three factors.
First, the global economic slowdown is likely to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-g7-wants-to-ban-russian-gold-hah
So is it the turn of gold markets now?
RN Bhaskar
Are the G7 countries doing what India describes through an adage? “Vinashakale vipreet buddhi” is a saying which – loosely translated -- means “During the time of destruction, man takes...
27 April 2026
Russia pushes out US from India
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Image: India Today
The news item in Al Jazeera on 24 April 2026 was cataclysmic -- https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/24/russian-troops-warships-in-india-soon-why-their-new-military-pact-matters. Much of India’s mainstream media has not covered this item. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/nirp-and-the-rosy-indian-economy/862987
How India has avoided the dangers of NIRP
Unexpectedly, and sadly, you hear some people clamouring for the removal of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Raghuram Rajan. But there an equally insistent – and numerically superior – group which...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/business-with-thailand-could-grow-faster/1250669
Indians begin to look at Thailand for locating their businesses there
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 05, 2018 08:22 am
Thailand is not unfamiliar to most Indian businessmen.
The Aditya Birla group was one of the first to discover the advantages of investing...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/expect-2018-to-be-more-unsettling-than-2017/1178960
An unsettling 2018
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 30, 2017 07:52 am
Most marketmen are a bit confused about what the markets and the leading economies have in store for 2018. The first of such reports is already out. Credit Suisse...
Who will bridge promise and performance?
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Picture source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHRpM2iNU
Government engineers and supervisors can be terribly incompetent even capricious. Two data points provide ample evidence of this. The first is how two parts of a...
