https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-does-anyone-even-know-how-many-deaths-take-place-in-india
The worrisome tale of unknown deaths in India
RN Bhaskar – 23 April 2020
Death is a serious subject. It becomes a looming grim reality when a pandemic is around. Unfortunately, India does not even know how many have died.
The seriousness...
Hallucinations of power and wealth – Budget 2024
By RN Bhaskar
The Bing generated image above is about a person’s hallucinations of power and wealth. In a way, the underpinnings of the Interim Budget 2024 presented before Parliament on 1 February...
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...
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...
Ram mandir is a great idea, but what about the economy?
“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/power-for-all-would-not-be-that-easy/1277859
Power losses and funding constraints will hobble power-for-all
— By RN Bhaskar | May 17, 2018
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has decided to call for a review of the power sector. Contrary to what he had been told by the power administration,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-awards-india-shaken-and-unprepared-r-n-bhaskar/908045
Policy Watch
Arbitration awards: India learns the high cost of shoddy planning in business and policy
r.n.bhaskar
It is déjà vu all over again. At least three arbitration awards threaten to change the way the country will do business. At stake is...
Can the government be wiser than the markets when it comes to capital allocation?
By RN Bhaskar
Economists are generally agreed that governments can be terribly poor in allocation of resources for economic development.
Yes, there are exceptions. When a nation is...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/stressed-assets-sometimes-crooks-squeal-loudest-r-n-bhaskar/880378
Stressed assets: Scamsters try to squeal their way out
Over the last fortnight, most headlines talked about Raghuram Rajan, Governor, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), deciding to go back to academics after his term with the RBI got over this...
Global growth requires much more than GDP and population
By RN Bhaskar
On 9 December, 2023, a senior minister of the Indian government spoke at an industry forum. He exhorted industrialists in the audience to collaborate further with the Government to...
