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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 | Eighth Pay Panel: More Peanuts for Monkeys?Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Eighth Pay Panel: More Peanuts for Monkeys?

    The high cost of wages has also slowed down the intake into the government and most departments are hugely understaffed

    19 Nov 2025 9:10 PM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live Democracy!Columnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | The Battle For Bihar: Democracy Is Dead… Long Live...

    The democratic path depends most upon one human quality: restraint. From restraint flows the spirit of accommodation,...

    4 Nov 2025 10:38 PM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | RSS Had Played No Role in Hyderabad Joining IndiaColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | RSS Had Played No Role in Hyderabad Joining India

    It is now 77 years since the largest princely state in British India was integrated into India on September 17, 1948

    8 Sept 2025 10:34 PM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Have No Illusions On What Hyderabad Was Before It Was A Part Of The UnionColumnists
    Mohan Guruswamy | Have No Illusions On What Hyderabad Was Before It...

    The city is dotted with numerous institutions in their unique architecture which stand testimony to his proclivity for...

    28 May 2025 12:35 AM IST

    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 10:49 PM IST

    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 ...

    15 Nov 2024 12:25 AM IST

    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...

    18 Oct 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    27 Aug 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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...

    15 Aug 2024 12:00 AM IST

    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:...

    2 July 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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

    6 Jun 2024 12:00 AM IST

    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...

    27 May 2024 12:10 AM IST

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