http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-states-amazing-feat-of-de-risking-farmers/1073810
How did Maharashtra manage to de-risk farmers?
— By RN Bhaskar | May 25, 2017 07:27 am
Maharashtra is a rich state where its farmers are poor. And it isn’t because they don’t get loan waivers. Farmers remain poor primarily because they’ve been...
The politics and economics behind the two DFCs
RN Bhaskar
By any reckoning, the dedicated freight corridor (DFC) idea was a great concept.
Immensely relevant
As J M Baxi, noted consultant, states (https://www.jmbaxi.com/newsletter/issue-xxvi/dedicated-freight-corridor.html), “The existing trunk routes of Howrah-Delhi on the Eastern Corridor...
Loans will continue to rise if unemployment is not eased
RN Bhaskar
Last week India’s central bank, the RBI, revised and tightened norms for borrowings, raised risk weights for personal loans and credit cards. That will make the cost of borrowing...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-india-hope-for-speedier-justice
Judiciary - Part IV: The curse of judicial delays
(All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/)
RN Bhaskar
India has a way with words to disguise its lack of intention. In its attempt to justify its judicial...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/is-the-telecommunications-sector-being-skewered
The decimation of the Indian telecom sector?
RN Bhaskar -- October 31, 2019
Do policymakers in India secretly harbor a death-wish? The question was uppermost in the minds of most people immediately after the Supreme Court’s ruling last week (https://clpr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cellular-Operators-v.-TRAI.pdf) that...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/too-soon-to-celebrate-storm-clouds-ahead-for-india
Is the worst over for the Indian economy?
RN Bhaskar
Most speculators seem quite upbeat after the pounding they have gone through during the recent bear phase. They believe that good times have begun. Maybe, they are right. It does look...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/nation-of-law-breakers-government-included
We are a nation of law-breakers; the government included
RN Bhaskar -- 2 April 2020
Study the table alongside. It tells you of how all the major states of India, led by Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh, have abetted the formation of...
http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-policy-watch-oh-shit-a-rs-150617-crore-business-2033671
Waste-management
Oh shit! A Rs 150,617 crore business
Biogas is finally beginning to attract some of the biggest names in the markets. Tata Power just announced that it has helped set up 36 biogas plants in and around Mundra in Gujarat....
