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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 | Indus Waters: Yawning Gap Between Threat and RealityColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Indus Waters: Yawning Gap Between Threat and Reality

    The geography makes it next to impossible to stop the flow of the waters from the Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. Yet there...

    25 April 2025 5:19 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Hyderabad connection with the Kumaonis who won eternal honour at Rezang La in 1962Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Hyderabad connection with the Kumaonis who won...

    When I first began researching the Rezang La story after having visited Chushul in the early 1990s, I discovered a ...

    14 Nov 2024 6:55 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy| Why nations fail, world is unequal: 3 get NobelColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy| Why nations fail, world is unequal: 3 get Nobel

    Three academics based in the United States -- Daron Acemoglu from Turkey and Simon Johnson and James Robinson from...

    17 Oct 2024 6:40 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Without fair defence, right to fair trial is meaninglessColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Without fair defence, right to fair trial is...

    Earlier this month, Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud decided to hear the matter related to the rape-murder at...

    26 Aug 2024 6:40 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Will new bifurcation of J&K be a step forward?Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will new bifurcation of J&K be a step forward?

    Five years post-Article 370, Kashmir remains in turmoil under Delhi's direct rule. Can greater autonomy offer a viable...

    14 Aug 2024 6:30 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Rethink Speaker’s role: Can we look outside the system?Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Rethink Speaker’s role: Can we look outside the...

    Addressing the Assam Assembly last year, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, who was recently elected to a second term, said:...

    1 July 2024 6:40 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Pyrrhic win: Will hubris make way for humility?Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Pyrrhic win: Will hubris make way for humility?

    Examining the repercussions of PM Modi's recent electoral win amidst declining support and growing opposition

    5 Jun 2024 6:30 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | India’s good fortune to have had Nehru at the beginningColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | India’s good fortune to have had Nehru at the...

    Jawaharlal Nehru died sixty years ago on May 27, 1964. He was seventy-four. He had a stroke that morning at 6.25 am and...

    26 May 2024 6:40 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | The importance of being Tibet’s 14th Dalai LamaColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | The importance of being Tibet’s 14th Dalai Lama

    The 14th Dalai Lama (spiritual name: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), who was born on July 6,...

    18 May 2024 6:40 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Maoism or Modism: The perils of personality cultColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Maoism or Modism: The perils of personality cult

    The outpouring of outrage over the arrest of “Urban Maoists” on patently spurious charges reminds me about what that ...

    29 April 2024 6:24 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?

    Be it a democracy or a dictatorship, governments are almost always changed by throwing out the incumbent. The former...

    18 April 2024 7:43 PM

    Mohan Guruswamy | The Gaza war: Has Israel now lost its heroic sheen?Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The Gaza war: Has Israel now lost its heroic sheen?

    The attack on the rave party near the small Israeli town of Sderot across the Gaza Strip fence is possibly the single...

    16 Oct 2023 6:35 PM

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