http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/telecom-market-rigging-despite-auctions-r-n-bhaskar/928112
Telecom: Ways for the government to rig it despite auctions
Within a couple of months, the government will embark on its largest spectrum auction. It will be auctioning 2,345 MHz of spectrum, the largest ever spectrum auction in the history...
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/gold-smuggling-turn-the-spotlight-from-kerala-to-govt-policies
Gold smuggling - I
Part II can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/10/gold-smuggling-ii-a-cleanup-is-urgently-needed/)
A beneficiary of flawed government policies.
RN Bhaskar
There’s an apocryphal story about a man blinded because he stole the gold that he saw lying unattended on the table in his master’s...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-government-should-not-be-trusted-with-banks/1198570
The government is responsible for bank NPAs
— By RN Bhaskar | Jan 04, 2018 08:34 am
A seminal document, that CARE Ratings brought out on December 27, 2017, showed how precariously perched India’s banks are.
In that list (see chart alongside) CARE Ratings...
Oil to pressure remittances into India?
http://www.freepressjournal.in/oil-to-pressurise-remittances-into-india-r-n-bhaskar/767163
Jan 28, 2016 12:00 am
Oil slipped below the psychological barrier of $30 per barrel last week, sending out gasps of shock and amazement. Few had expected it to fall below the $40 level. ...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/will-the-remittances-flow-revive/1400829
Can remittances surpass their 2014 levels?
RN Bhaskar November 22, 2018
Four years ago, when oil prices were slipping, there were worries that remittances from foreign workers into India would decline. The reduction in oil revenues had made many countries in...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/solar-power-govt-takes-bolder-steps-finally-r-n-bhaskar/876404
Solar Power: The government finally takes bolder steps
For perhaps the first time in decades, India could actually begin scripting a new business model for power generation. Kurien did this through milk. Piyush Goyal, Union minister for power, could do...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/strategy-for-healthier-india-china-trade
China and India could together revive the global economy
RN Bhaskar 26 March 2020
China has been a savvy investor in India (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/03/china-investments-in-india-are-strategic-and-profitable/). Some claim that China has outsmarted India. But such cynical views miss the big picture. China created value...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/pending-cases-and-political-criminality/http://epaper.freepressjournal.in/625996/The-Free-Press-Journal-Mumbai-Edition/29-Oct-2015?show=touch#page/10/1
Pending cases and political criminality
— By R N Bhaskar | Oct 29, 2015 12:50 am
There is one question most social scientists have been grappling with for ages – what is the difference between a government and the mafia? After all,...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-futures-in-diamonds-is-sebi-promoting-a-scam/1054949
Diamond futures and SEBI's blind spot
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 20, 2017 09:34 am
On Tuesday, January 10, the Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX) came out with a statement (www.icexindia.com/pdf/10012017_RE.pdf) informing people that it was planning to launch three futures contracts for...
