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About the AuthorPavan K Varma
The writer, an author, former diplomat and is in politics.
    Pavan K. Varma | US-China trade war gives India shot in some sectorsColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | US-China trade war gives India shot in some sectors

    China can perhaps afford a retaliatory war because its economy, although not without certain fault lines, is much...

    12 April 2025 6:35 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Why Congress must die for a shot at resurgenceColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Why Congress must die for a shot at resurgence

    The results in key states speak for themselves: In UP, the Congress got only six seats; in Bihar, three; in Gujarat,...

    15 March 2025 6:21 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Bihar’s turn to vote next: Jan Suraajj has a fair shotColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Bihar’s turn to vote next: Jan Suraajj has a fair...

    Just this week, PM Narendra Modi launched the BJP’s campaign. The Bihar Cabinet has also been reshuffled

    1 March 2025 5:16 PM

    CHANAKYA’S VIEW | When will govt deliver on second wave of reforms? | Pavan K. VarmaColumnists
    CHANAKYA’S VIEW | When will govt deliver on second wave of reforms? |...

    The Opposition protests sporadically, but it is all they can do. The whole exercise is a ritual, performed predictably,...

    1 Feb 2025 7:31 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Manmohan peaked by 2009, elegantly faded into historyColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Manmohan peaked by 2009, elegantly faded into history

    In May 2009, just before I was leaving to take over as Ambassador of India to Bhutan, T.K.A. Nair, the powerful...

    4 Jan 2025 6:40 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Why India world’s ‘happiest country’ but must get rid of that statusColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Why India world’s ‘happiest country’ but must get rid...

    The legendary fourth king of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, ruled for 34 years, until he voluntarily...

    21 Dec 2024 6:40 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Don’t airbrush history, but respect context & fact tooColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Don’t airbrush history, but respect context & fact...

    Recently, I spoke at the launch in Delhi of Vikram Sampath’s new magnum opus, Tipu Sultan: The Saga of Mysore’s...

    7 Dec 2024 6:40 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Casinos, beef, prohibition: Get off the moral pedestalColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Casinos, beef, prohibition: Get off the moral...

    Elections will come and go, and our great democracy will run on, but at the social level — and not unrelated to politics...

    23 Nov 2024 7:56 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Governors need to keep soul of Constitution aliveColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Governors need to keep soul of Constitution alive

    A poet has written: “Hum unki yaad mein aksar unhi ko bhool gaye: In remembering her, I often forgot about...

    28 Sept 2024 7:10 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | Kandahar surrender: Why slam series? Learn lessons!Columnists
    Pavan K. Varma | Kandahar surrender: Why slam series? Learn lessons!

    I am surprised at the controversy over the Netflix series on the IC-814 hijacking. The series is not without its...

    14 Sept 2024 6:40 PM

    Pavan K. Varma | BJP vs AAP tug-of-war killed students in DelhiColumnists
    Pavan K. Varma | BJP vs AAP tug-of-war killed students in Delhi

    The death of three young IAS aspirants on July 27 due to drowning in the flooded basement of a coaching institute in...

    3 Aug 2024 7:32 PM

    Book Review | Timeless hymn, glibly renderedBooks and Art
    Book Review | Timeless hymn, glibly rendered

    Vikram Seth seems to have finally surfaced from his prolonged creative hibernation to write a translation of...

    20 July 2024 10:28 AM

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