http://www.freepressjournal.in/lessons-in-education-from-china-for-india/830650
What India can learn about education from China - I
Any way you look at it, there is a great sad irony underlining the approach of India and China to its own people and to the world.
India waxes eloquent about...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-headed-for-further-currency-depreciation/1470652
Unproductive spending could easily lead to further currency depreciation
RN Bhaskar February 28, 2019
Turning and turning in a widening gyre//The falcon cannot hear the falconer.//Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold . . . . .
WB Yeats, The Second Coming
The...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-relevance-of-amul-in-indias-page-part-2/746598
Why Amul Matters – II
The government becomes its biggest threat. . . . .
On 14 May 2015, Jethabhai P Patel, chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) made some very important statements that should make India’s...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-plunder-part-ii-how-finance-commission-weightages-were-tweaked-to-promote-profligacy-and-irresponsibilityhttps://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-plunder-part-ii-how-finance-commission-weightages-were-tweaked-to-promote-profligacy-and-irresponsibility
India plunder – Part II:
Tweaking rules to promote abet plunder through profligacy and irresponsibility
RN Bhaskar - Sept 10, 2020
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The other parts of this series can be found at
http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/09/the-plunder-series/
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Except for brief periods, much of North Indian history has been one...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/foreign-direct-investment-good-news-and-bad/1213111
Anxious times for India's FDI
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 01, 2018 07:43 am
On 22 January UNCTAD announced that global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) had fallen by 16% in 2017 to an estimated US$1.52 trillion, from a revised US$1.81...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-a-spirited-debate-over-ethanol/1322177
Ethanol for cars is not a good idea in India
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 26, 2018
Each time India faces a glut in sugar production, there is a chorus of voices touting the need for vehicles to use ethanol. The arguments...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/a-great-vision-for-healthcare-if-r-n-bhaskar/1336205
Ayushman Bharat and healthcare
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 16, 2018
The present government should soon announce (maybe on Independence Day) the Ayushman Bharat—National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) which could make India have the world’s largest health insurance programme. The scheme could...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/verghese-kuriens-milk-model-curdled
How the government has curdled the Verghese Kurien’s milk model
RN Bhaskar -- 20 February, 2020
If you can read the tea leaves – you can predict that the government will decimate the Kurien model for milk production, nutrition and growth...








































