Top
Home » Mohan Guruswamy
Mohan Guruswamy
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
    The Union Cabinet can have up to 81 members,but currently there are only 53 (with 28 vacancies). (ANI file photo)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Cabinet rejig: PM needs to look for better talent

    If PM Modi wants to survive politically and leave a well- regarded legacy, the surest way would be to make his...

    6 July 2021 7:01 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Modi’s new architecture for govt may hurt IndiaOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Modi’s new architecture for govt may hurt India

    What should cause us concern is the centrality of the Prime Minister’s residence and office to this new layout

    24 Jun 2021 6:50 AM IST

    Mysuru residents practice yoga with Mysore palace in the backdrop following social distancing norms. DC photoOpinion
    India's culture & how it evolved Yoga is exercise, it's not Hinduism

    If yoga is Hindu, then karate is Buddhist, kung fu is Confucian and taekwondo also Buddhist

    18 Jun 2021 7:09 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | It's not for India to clean up the Afghanistan mess

    If that Afghan situation were to boil over it will spill out mostly into Pakistan, a country quite dedicated to our...

    8 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

    Karnataka bans chewing tobacco and spitting in public, violators to be penalised. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Tobacco India's top health crisis: Act now, or just...

    It is not that the incidence of smoking is low in India if we take into consideration the widespread bidi habit

    31 May 2021 7:35 AM IST

    Medical staff prepare dose for COVID vaccine to administer. (DC Image/P Narasimha Murthy)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Hubris, narcissim and moment of hamartia'

    The sin of hubris has been a continuing theme that has captured the imagination of historians, philosophers and...

    25 May 2021 9:24 PM IST

    Israeli forces flares light up the sky in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2021. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Israel's brutality in Gaza has dented heroic image

    The founding of the State of Israel held out the promise of a new nation

    17 May 2021 8:16 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Check India's corruption, or insurgencies will go up

    A just and relatively honest society requires a system that inflicts swift and commensurate retribution on transgressors

    11 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Modis inability to defend India against the second Covid-19 wave, and his inability to cajole the Chinese from withdrawing from areas they occupied in Ladakh now make him an easy target. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Bengal's thinking is clear: Will rest of India...

    The Gujarat model has been long exposed as bogus. There is light seen at the end of the tunnel

    4 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The God business is good business all across India

    Religion is now, not just increasingly a part of our politics, but also, and even more so, of our economics

    24 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Force majeure' can't be fig leaf for naked greed

    It will be interesting to know if the government has been told by Reliance or Airtel of their inability to pay the...

    9 April 2021 4:13 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | NRIs a master race'? It's not they who are special

    The NRIs who talk at our Pravasi Bharatiya melas hardly remit any money back home, but they talk a lot telling us what...

    30 March 2021 12:41 AM IST

    X
    sidekick