Monday, May 6, 2024
http://www.freepressjournal.in/india-is-encouraging-wage-disparity/ India is encouraging wage disparity — By RN Bhaskar | Dec 10, 2015 12:43 am  Last week there was a huge public outcry from some quarters when the Delhi Assembly passed a resolution allowing its legislators to get a 400% pay hike....
NINJAs on hire with no education, no income By RN Bhaskar Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. ― Heinrich Heine The crazed public lynchings and burnings have begun. The depressing part is that they, like many other...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/bringing-more-transparency-in-gold-trade/805277 Gold, PAN, excise duty, hallmarking and the government During the last two months, the gold trade has been agitated enough to go on strike and down shutters on at least two occasions. It has been protesting against the government’s newly...
https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-policy-watch-should-individuals-groups-or-cos-charged-for-water-consumption-1994088 People must pay for the water they use RN Bhaskar -- 8 June 2014 This is an issue that has no clear answer. There are lobbies that continue to demand that water be provided free to farmers. Then there are those...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/demonetisation-with-polls-round-the-corner-budget-may-have-a-few-sops-for-devastated-weavers-3202900.html Budget proposals that could swing voter sentiment - III ; Weaving a picture of devastation (With elections being announced for many states, including Uttar Pradesh, many believe that the budget to be announced on 1 February, will contain sops for...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-how-poor-are-india-s-slums-2065228 How poor are India’s slums? R N Bhaskar | Updated: Mar 2, 2015, 05:00 AM IST, DNA In order to understand what the numbers in the chart alongside signify, it is essential to first comprehend what the Census means...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-when-the-shadows-grow-longer-and-dread-begins-to-reign When shadows grow longer than the man, it means that the sun is setting . . RN Bhaskar – 16 July 2020 There is an old saying that when the shadow of a man grows larger than the person, it means...
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/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...
 http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-government-can-easily-clean-up-gold-market-in-india/1106479 Just three steps and the govt can clean up the gold market — By RN Bhaskar | Jul 20, 2017 07:04 am   The gold market in India is in a mess.  Smuggling continues big time.  Seizure of smuggled-in-gold barely accounts for 3%...