https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-us-russia-ukraine-will-cause-inflation-to-soar-and-currencies-to-tumble
The US gambit with Ukraine and Russia will scorch the entire world
RN Bhaskar
Almost two months have transpired since the Ukraine-Russia-NATO-USA spat began. As mentioned in these columns, this was a war that the US wanted, and got (https://asiaconverge.com/2022/02/ukraine-the-war-that-usa-wants/). It...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/labour-pains-that-threaten-the-government/
Labour pains that threaten the government
— By R N Bhaskar | Oct 15, 2015 02:53 am
The stakes for the government at the centre are growing higher by each passing month. The spectre of unemployment looms larger with each passing month. Almost...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/healthcare-and-medical-education-blighted-vision
Healthcare and medical education mismanaged and misunderstood by the government
RN Bhaskar – June 4, 2020
The government has finally been stirred and shaken by the horrific exposure of the abject health facilities in the country. This was thanks to the...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-the-rot-begins-at-schools-2105831
The rot begins at schools
"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...
A water policy is crucial for India’s survival
RN Bhaskar
The Bing generated image above could be prophetic. India – and the world – could soon be in desperate search of water. India will feel the pain much more than the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-a-petition-to-the-rbi-surging-bank-charges/1039464
Policywatch
Is the RBI indifferent to surging bank charges?
Rn bhaskar
Officials at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may be familiar with an image that is being WhatsApp-ed around lately. It says “If you have a gun, you can rob a...
R N Bhaskar
23 February 2015
Almost everybody is now reconciled to the inevitability of urbanisation.
Even as early as January 2007, Goldman Sachs had in its economics paper (No152) on “India’s Rising Growth Potential” pointed out how the 21st century would...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/coronavirus-rules-are-for-others-not-for-politicians-or-elections
Elections show contempt for pandemic rules
RN Bhaskar -- 8 April 2021
On 30 March 2021, NITI Aayog member Dr V K Paul had some profoundly serious words (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1708790) for his media audience: "We are facing an increasingly severe and intensive...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/go-chanda-kochar-please-go/1269603
Why Chanda Kochar must go
RN Bhaskar | May 03, 2018
Last week witnessed the first public appeal being made by mainstream media asking Chanda Kochar (currently managing director of ICICI Bank) to step down from her post. (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/icici-deserves-a-statesman-not-a-leader-in-hiding-letter-to-chanda-kochhar-from-another-ceo/articleshow/63893641.cms?curator=alphaideas&utm_source=alphaideas). In what was captioned...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-power-drain-in-india-by-rnbhaskar
The mismanagement of power in India
RN Bhaskar – 02 January, 2020
The sins of the past are finally catching up with the power sector. The energy situation has worsened, and could get worse, as policymakers hurtle from one blunder to...
