Friday, July 11, 2025
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-judiciarys-fabric-is-frayed-thanks-primarily-to-the-government Without a strong judiciary, India's legislators and bureaucrats will cripple India's economic growth (All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/) RN Bhaskar On February 13, 2021, former chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi called the state of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-good-the-bad-and-the-positively-ugly-of-the-new-education-policy National Education Policy: What about the teachers and the vision? RN Bhaskar -- 20 August, 2020 (This article appeared in two parts in the print ediiton -- on 20 and 27 August) Just glance through the main recommendations of the last...
Ceasefire talks are fine – But what about Gaza? By R N Bhaskar Image generated by https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img The world has seen two major ceasefire talks.  One has just been concluded between India and Pakistan.  The US is believed to have been the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/rn-bhaskar-relevance-of-amul-in-indias-page-part-1/742104 Relevance of Amul in India’s page – Part 1 — By RN Bhaskar | Dec 24, 2015 12:08 am All through the 1980s, Verghese Kurien, the “Milkman of India” kept telling people that this country had a natural strategic advantage with milk...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/foreign-direct-investment-good-news-and-bad/1213111 Anxious times for India's FDI — By RN Bhaskar | Feb 01, 2018 07:43 am On 22 January UNCTAD announced that global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI)  had fallen by 16% in 2017 to an estimated US$1.52 trillion, from a revised US$1.81...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/indias-interests-in-milk-almost-sold-away-to-new-zealand India's milk interests sought to be sabotaged by bureaucrats RN Bhaskar – 15 Aug 2019 Milk is one of the most strategically important industries for India.  It is one which has spawned Asia’s largest agricultural brand in Amul.  It has witnessed...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-can-sebi-pick-up-the-broken-pieces-in-the-nse-chitra-ramakrishnan-case Can SEBI pick up the broken pieces in the NSE-Chitra case? By RN Bhaskar On 11 February 2022, SEBI comes out with an order (No. WTM/AB/MRD/DSA/21/2021-22), authored by which Ananta Barua, Whole Time Member of the Securities and Exchange Board of...
India's problems make it stumble RN Bhaskar Last fortnight has not been good for India.  True, the prime minister exulted over the role India could play in the G-20, but there are smoke signals all around warning of dangerous times ahead....
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...
Farm protests & Kurien’s Amul offer lessons to be learnt By RN Bhaskar On 23 February 2024, the web was flooded with advertisements showing the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Amul, the largest agricultural brand in India (and even Asia)....