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About the AuthorMohan Guruswamy
The writer, a policy analyst studying economic and security issues, held senior positions in government and industry. He also specialises in the Chinese economy
    Why didn’t Modi, as PM, release Henderson Brooks Report on ’62?Opinion
    Why didn’t Modi, as PM, release Henderson Brooks Report on ’62?

    A tangled web of inability to understand security issues, prevarication, bureaucratic intrigue, political indecision,...

    3 April 2019 2:34 AM IST

    After Balakot: India-Pak ties and nuclear bombastOpinion
    After Balakot: India-Pak ties and nuclear bombast

    Clearly, the threat of the first use of nuclear weapons, if provoked beyond a point, could be often as effective as...

    27 March 2019 7:35 AM IST

    A celebration of democracy: For whom, and how?Opinion
    A celebration of democracy: For whom, and how?

    The lack of intelligent and sensible debate in Parliament portends bad days for our democracy.

    20 March 2019 2:37 AM IST

    The World Bank brokered the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the Indus river basin.Opinion
    India can't turn off Indus water flow to Pak

    The Indus river system has a total drainage area exceeding 11,165,000 sq km.

    25 Feb 2019 12:44 AM IST

    The World Bank brokered the Indus Water Treaty between India and Pakistan after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the Indus river basin.Opinion
    India can't turn off Indus water flow to Pak

    The Indus river system has a total drainage area exceeding 11,165,000 sq km

    23 Feb 2019 1:26 AM IST

    The complex tale of the evolution of India-US relations is well known. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Did US sucker China and India into 1962 war?

    The US was keen to use Tibet to open up another front against China.

    13 Feb 2019 2:14 AM IST

    The Indian Constitution therefore guarantees justice, liberty and equality. (Representational image)Opinion
    On secularism, conversion & religion

    The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we have accepted that we hold certain rights to be...

    7 Feb 2019 2:00 AM IST

    It is another matter that religions as we know them to be practiced are usually premised on irrational and primitive ideas.World
    On secularism, conversion & nature of religion

    The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we have accepted that we hold certain rights to be...

    7 Feb 2019 1:21 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra ModiOpinion
    2019 seems fraught with possibilities

    So far Mr Modi has not allowed them to define who he really is.

    2 Feb 2019 2:28 AM IST

    The answer, it seemed, was not difficult to seek for those who believed that economic growth in India, then as it is now, is state driven.Opinion
    Can India afford to leave Bihar behind?

    India has grown at an average rate of over 7 per cent since 2000.

    26 Dec 2018 6:20 AM IST

    A black woman who stood up to 300 neo-Nazis in Sweden said she was inspired by the late Nelson Mandela, who fought against apartheid in South Africa. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Gandhi & Mandela: Legends of a different kind

    Nelson Mandela being equated with Mahatma Gandhi, and by many people who should know better, was a bit too much to...

    14 Dec 2018 7:30 AM IST

    KCR address a meeting in Adilabad on Thursday. (DC)Opinion
    Road to 2019 is fraught with possibilities

    If the Congress wins in Telangana and even one of the two big Hindi states, the mar' of the Bimaru states, it will be a...

    6 Dec 2018 7:29 AM IST

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