27 April 2026
Solutions require political resolve
By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed
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India is in grave trouble. Dogs are baying for the government’s blood. Ten years of self-aggrandisement have resulted in a situation where India is now being marginalised. ...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/north-indias-demographic-time-bomb-r-n-bhaskar/825303
Will North India trigger the end of the India dream?
In an insightful document that Ambit Capital brought out on 5 April this year, (on Sizing India’s demographic bomb), the authors highlight a stark reality that confronts India.
It talks about...
India must find new ways to cope with global fragmentation
RN Bhaskar
There is global fragmentation all around. And India has already begun reconsidering many of the policies it had introduced and was quite smug about. Two developments of last week...
NCERT and education are blighted in India
RN Bhaskar
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In the last week of April 2025, the government funded NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training -- https://ncert.nic.in/) came out with an astounding modification in the History...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-india-needs-a-national-policy-on-waste-management-2011519
India needs a national policy on waste management
True, there are other municipalities that have also blundered, but without either a concrete plan, or even a transparent tendering process.
A case in point is the way the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)...
Riots – what provokes them?
Image source: BBC
By RN Bhaskar with inputs from Sakeena Bari Sayyed
Nepal is on the boil. The prime minister and president have been compelled to demit their respective offices. The crowds continued to go on a...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/education-matters-thats-why-kejri-matters
Education lessons from Kejriwal
RN Bhaskar -- 5 March 2020
The recent Delhi elections confirmed one thing – that the formidable election machine Modi and the BJP had built was no match for the Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Like all...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-may-be-pushing-a-wrong-trade-policy
India's shrinking trade volumes are worrying signals
RN Bhaskar
Government spokesmen have been crowing about the amazing measures that the government has introduced to ensure an economic revival. Last week, D Subbarao, former RBI governor, went on record stating that India’s...
Can the US dollar survive for long?
By RN Bhaskar
'In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.' -- Henry Kissinger as quoted in https://nypost.com/2023/12/03/opinion/remembering-my-late-friend-former-secretary-of-state-henry-kissinger/
The US dollar is under siege. And much of this is on account of three reasons
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The India infrastructure hype
RN Bhaskar
Last week, the government announced that it would be embarking on another large investment outlay for infrastructure. As a media report (https://indianexpress.com/article/india/govts-big-infra-push-nod-to-road-projects-worth-rs-50655-crore-9491780/) put it, “In a big push to infrastructure spending, the Union government Friday...
