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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
    Mohan Guruswamy | China & Arunachal: Learn from history, experienceOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | China & Arunachal: Learn from history, experience

    The Chinese have never been quite explicit about exactly how much of India’s north-eastern state of Arunachal...

    31 May 2023 7:13 PM

    A farmer dries paddy which got soaked by unseasonal rains. (DC Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Suicides are no indication of India's farmers'...

    Politicians see votes in farmer suicides. Few of them seem to understand the reality that has overtaken farming in...

    8 May 2023 6:35 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab, and lessons for the rest of IndiaOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab, and lessons for the rest of...

    Even though Punjabis account for less than 2.5 per cent of India's population, they are one of the most prosperous races...

    2 May 2023 1:54 AM

    Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of society are we, how much of a democracy?Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of society are we, how much of a...

    The test of what kind of a society are we and what kind of a system we have today comes in times of a grave crisis. We...

    24 April 2023 7:33 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Panama Papers: Nothing done; no questions askedOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Panama Papers: Nothing done; no questions asked

    The Panama Papers had been briefly back in the news in India after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned Bollywood...

    17 April 2023 6:36 PM

    The Indus river in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. AP file photoOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Indus waters: Yawning gap between threat and reality

    The Narendra Modi government has decided to start talks with Pakistan on the Indus Waters Treaty, and rightly so. After...

    7 March 2023 6:35 PM

    China reached the one billion milestone in 1980, while India got there in 1997. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | China’s people crisis and lessons India must learn

    There is some excitement in the media over the fact that India’s population has just pipped China’s and that...

    6 Feb 2023 6:30 PM

    RRR is a fictional take on the younger days of celebrated freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Seetharama Raju. (Photo: Twitter/@RRRMovie)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | RRR: It’s just a vulgar distortion of history

    I saw the movie RRR on Netflix the other evening. It was everything I expected it to be. Extremely well made and...

    30 Jan 2023 7:30 PM

    Telangana had backwardness written into its geography. It had backwardness written into its sociology. And it had backwardness hard-wired into its mentality. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Andhra & Telangana: The trial marriage that failed

    On January 3 this year, A. Sridhar Reddy, the founder of the Sampoorna Telangana Praja Samithi in 1969, the organisation...

    24 Jan 2023 6:35 PM

    File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will ‘linking rivers’ work, or end up as a...

    I keep hearing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to unveil the often spoken and then shelved ‘Rivers Link...

    9 Jan 2023 6:30 PM

    Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America’s many ills?

    About a decade ago, Tom Friedman and Michael Mandrelbaum wrote a long lament titled “That Used to be US. What Went...

    26 Dec 2022 6:30 PM

    It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

    In recent days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been lamenting the rise of dynastic political parties. He is right....

    19 Dec 2022 6:30 PM

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