Sunday, December 14, 2025
R N Bhaskar 23 February 2015 Almost everybody is now reconciled to the inevitability of urbanisation. Even as early as January 2007, Goldman Sachs had in its economics paper (No152) on “India’s Rising Growth Potential” pointed out how the 21st century would...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/recounting-the-great-indian-bank-robbery-rn-bhaskar/789412 Recounting the great Indian bank robbery Feb 25, 2016 02:13 am The biggest players, goes a common saying, are often the most shameless. This was reinforced when data came rolling out of the presentations made last fortnight by S.S.Mundhra, deputy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/are-the-pm-modis-key-schemes-being-sabotaged Ignoring waste management could cripple three key schemes of PM Modi RN Bhaskar -- August 1, 2019 Three schemes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are truly pathbreaking – at least where India is concerned.  One is Swachh Bharat, The other is...
http://m.firstpost.com/business/adanis-largest-solar-power-project-in-tn-is-good-but-rooftop-solar-is-the-way-ahead-3017408.html Adani's TN solar project: Great achievement; but rooftop0 so9lar's better RN Bhaskar Sep 23, 2016 15:59 IST On Wednesday, 21 September, 2016, the Adani group launched the largest single location solar power project in the world. The group which...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/lost-opportunities-fading-visionudget2020: lost opportunities, fading vision Budget2020: Great expectations; big disappointment RN Bhaskar  --  6 Feb 2020 Hopes of reviving the economy appear to have faded.  There were so many things the government could have done.  Rooftop solar which reduces import bills and...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-gold-mining-an-agenda-for-the-government Gold mining IV What the government should do? RN Bhaskar When it comes to gold, politicians, government officials, media and the general public can be quite misinformed to the point of hysteria. Consider how – on 21 February 2020 -- an unsuspecting public...
R N Bhaskar 29 June 2015 Australia is in the final stages of concluding a Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) with India.  It also hopes to enter into a nuclear fuel supply agreement with India (Australia is the third largest producer...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/recession-or-not-the-pain-is-for-real-rnbhaskar The economy is suffering a lot more than is being admitted Economy: Recession or not, the pain is for real RN Bhaskar – 5 December, 2019 Last week, the finance minister tried to explain why there might be a slowdown, but there...
  https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-judiciarys-fabric-is-frayed-thanks-primarily-to-the-government Without a strong judiciary, India's legislators and bureaucrats will cripple India's economic growth (All other articles in the Judiciary series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/03/the-judiciary-series/) RN Bhaskar On February 13, 2021, former chief justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi called the state of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/two-measures-that-could-empower-marginal-farmers-land-lease-and-fpos Land lease and FPOs could benefit marginal farmers RN Bhaskar -- 15 October, 2020 Time and again, new numbers pop up, reconfirming an old truth – that India’s farmers are in distress.  Especially small farmers.  A set of figures that is...