Friday, January 23, 2026
http://www.freepressjournal.in/prepare-yourself-financial-turbulence-ahead/809974 Prepare yourself, financial turbulence ahead — By RN Bhaskar | Mar 23, 2016 12:01 am Last fortnight, Paytm, the mobile payments firm, declared that it will increase its seller base on its online marketplace multifold to 500,000 by March 2017, compared to...
R N Bhaskar 6 April 2015 Had the government really been serious about providing affordable housing for the economically weaker sections (EWS) of society, all it had to do was to look at what Iran has done. If it thought that...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-msp-bihar-maize-and-elections Were MSP rules relaxed to aid vote capture in the forthcoming Bihar elections? RN Bhaskar The three bills (now Acts) related to agriculture continue to raise a lot of dust.  This column dealt with the bills last week.  Yes, they are...
Will debt spur India’s GDP growth this time despite textiles languishing? RN Bhaskar On 31 October, 2023, the RBI governor, Shaktikanta Das, stated that the growth momentum in the economy continues to be strong, and that the GDP number for the...
R N Bhaskar 20 July 2015 "Make in India" is a good slogan. But it depends critically on the making of people, character-building, even basic literacy in India. All this begins at school.  School education is the most enduring way to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-futures-in-diamonds-is-sebi-promoting-a-scam/1054949 Diamond futures and SEBI's blind spot — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 20, 2017 09:34 am On Tuesday, January 10, the Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX) came out with a statement (www.icexindia.com/pdf/10012017_RE.pdf) informing people that it was planning to launch three futures contracts for...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-frenetic-quest-for-talent-2029427 IITs - Frenetic quest for talent Monday, 27 October 2014 - 6:38am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA | R N Bhaskar As India refocuses attention on manufacturing, it should try to attract the best brains The “Make in India” statement...
A huge educational crisis confronts India – can it be saved? By RN Bhaskar In October 2004, IITD (Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi) ranked 13th in the first edition of the QS University Rankings (https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/brics-rankings/top-universities-india). By 2024, its ranking had...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/how-will-india-fund-its-solar-power-plans/840358 How will India fund its solar power plans? Modi’s electoral survival will require more jobs to be created.  Rooftop solar could offer a solution. India faces a huge problem.  It may not have the money or the ability to set...
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...