https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-why-indias-investment-policies-are-perplexing-even-myopic
Investments: India’s policies are perplexing, even misguided
RN Bhaskar -- 30 April 2020
Deng Xiaoping, the former premier of the People’s Republic of China, had famously said "It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it...
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...
How will 2024 be for India and its economy?
By RN Bhaskar
Prognosis is judgement about how something is likely to develop in the future. It is based on symptoms that are visible today, and which may lead to consequences, unless...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jan-aushadhi-could-disrupt-domestic-pharma-market/1148447
Jan Aushadhi could be a game changer for Indian pharma
— By RN Bhaskar | Oct 05, 2017 08:16 am
This is like many other schemes that the previous government merely talked about, introduced, and then forgot. The Jan Aushadhi (literally translated as...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/votebank-politics-northeast-on-the-boil-r-n-bhaskar/1326458
The Northeast turmoil could actually clean up votebank politics across India
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 02, 2018
The Nellie nightmare gripped India on February 2, 1983. Overnight, Assamese tribals surrounded three villages filled with Bangladeshi migrants. They slaughtered some 3,300 people...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/high-costs-bedevil-india
Judicial delays, import duties and corruption make business a high cost affair
RN Bhaskar – 11 July 2019
When Prime minister Modi won at the hustings with a thumping majority, there was a resurgence of hope. Maybe, Modi 2.0 would be...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-two-cheers-for-decisions-on-education/1122661
Education gets a new lease of life in India
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 17, 2017 07:03 am
There are times when, in the din of sloganeering about what has gone wrong, people overlook the good that is being done. One...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-governments-myopia-will-blight-both-it-and-digital-payments-writes-rn-bhaskar
Slowdown in IT, discomfort with digital payments
RN Bhaskar
The government loves thumping its chest when digital payments soar. This was, after all, one of the stated objectives of the much-touted JAM Trinity - Jan Dhan, Aadhaar and Mobile (https://pib.gov.in/FeaturesDeatils.aspx?NoteId=151163&ModuleId%20=%202). As...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-msp-bihar-maize-and-elections
Were MSP rules relaxed to aid vote capture in the forthcoming Bihar elections?
RN Bhaskar
The three bills (now Acts) related to agriculture continue to raise a lot of dust. This column dealt with the bills last week. Yes, they are...
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...
