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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
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    Mohan Guruswamy | Rewriting history, with an open mind or empty mind?

    In recent years, the Sangh Parivar’s historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological...

    6 July 2022 7:21 AM IST

    NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu files her nomination papers for presidential election in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, at Parliament House, in New Delhi, Friday, June 24, 2022. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will Murmu remember the unkept promises to tribals?

    Like indigenous people around the globe, India’s adivasis too have been savaged and ravaged by later people claiming...

    27 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

    Binu P.G., a teacher who undertakes trips for academic purposes, is keen to see academic institutions come up with Constitution Clubs.Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | 15% rule: Size of Cabinets and the 91st Amendment

    The real problem is that with unlimited ministerships on offer, the destabilisation of governments was made easier

    7 Jun 2022 12:45 AM IST

    Students walk in formation with the Indian flag during full dress rehearsal. (Representational Photo:PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | From a unitary state to a Union of States

    India was never intended to be a saffron-hued monochromatic state, but a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual...

    30 May 2022 11:40 PM IST

    Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

    Sensitivity to each other’s feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

    21 May 2022 12:53 AM IST

    The Security Council holds a meeting to address the invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations headquarters on February 28, 2022 in New York City. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of a role should India get in a wider...

    India’s diplomacy for the past many years has increasingly focused on securing permanent membership of the UN Security...

    18 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

    The threat of an implicit nuclear escalation is not all that uncommon. (Representational Image/ AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Nuclear bombast: Is there a method in the madness?

    Since nuclear weapons cannot really be used, their only utility lies in the mere threat of their use

    7 April 2022 12:37 AM IST

    The shortage of working-age people and its unwillingness to alter its immigration policies to attract a more skilled workforce and to draw highly educated technology professionals due to age-old prejudices will cost Europe dearly. (Represenatational Image/ AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | As world is transforming, Europe getting irrelevant

    Within two decades, global GDP and power rankings will see substantial changes

    29 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

    A huge crowd gathers at Ramnagar fish market on Sunday, with little regard for social distancing or other COVID-19 norms. (S. Surender Reddy/DC)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Small states are a must for better governance

    Uttar Pradesh is larger in terms of population than Brazil, Japan or Bangladesh

    22 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Why is Gondwana’s land of Koitur left neglected?

    Wherever the Gonds still speak their own language, they refer to themselves as Koi, or Koitur

    18 March 2022 11:29 PM IST

    Unlike some others, Indias Constitution doesnt recognise the institution of political parties. Its the same in other serious and major democracies. (Representational image: PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Anti-defection law and inner-party democracy

    Political parties are extra or non-constitutional arrangements to organise people on the basis of shared ideas,...

    1 March 2022 6:48 AM IST

    The Godhra incident, ahead of the 2002 Gujarat polls, led to a pogrom and polarised Gujarat as never before. (Representational Image/ Twitter)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Who lit the fire on Sabarmati Exp at Godhra 20 years...

    A nation which forgives and forgets such huge assaults on its person is only condemned to suffer more of them

    27 Feb 2022 2:19 AM IST

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