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
    Given its abject failures on the economic front, the BJP/RSS regime in New Delhi is now pushing India towards a Hindutva nationhood, by seeking to victimise a minority for the perceived wrongs and slights of the past. (Representative Photo:AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from India’s history for PM...

    An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India

    17 Jan 2021 4:28 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers’ stir link with rural distress tenuousOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Farmers’ stir link with rural distress tenuous

    The suicide rate in India, an agrarian economy, was 13 per 100,000, the rate in industrialised, rich countries was often...

    29 Dec 2020 4:07 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Christmas ’91: The day Red Flag was lowered

    For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin’s mood swings worsened by alcoholic haze he was in...

    24 Dec 2020 4:30 AM IST

    Parliament of IndiaOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Parliament dysfunctional due to competitive politics

    The evolution of our politics into a non-ideological political competition has seen the demise of discussion and debate...

    21 Dec 2020 7:24 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | How rise in inequality distorts Indian society

    The nature of the institutions determines outcomes, not the means of production or processes

    18 Dec 2020 7:23 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplacedOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Worry on Brahmaputra waters seems misplaced

    A published paper estimates that the utilisable water of the Brahmaputra system is just four percent of the total...

    8 Dec 2020 9:11 AM IST

    This combination of pictures created on November 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures after speaking during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, and US President Donald Trump speaks during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early on November 4, 2020. - President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls closed across the United States Tuesday -- and a long night of waiting for results in key battlegrounds on the cards. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will Biden win in US, but Trump still be President?

    Like Americans, most of the world believes that the US President is the most powerful person in the world

    4 Nov 2020 3:10 PM IST

    President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Smith Reynolds Airport, in Winston-Salem. (AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Why so many US desis are in favour of Trump

    A recent opinion poll in the US suggests that some 28 per cent of Indian origin voters are leaning towards Trump and the...

    21 Oct 2020 10:13 AM IST

    Professors Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson, winners of the 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. (Image: Twitter/@Stanford)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | ‘Auction theory’ Nobel: But do people benefit?

    Of all Nobel Prize disciplines, it is probably Economics after Medicine that touches the everyday life of mankind

    15 Oct 2020 9:54 AM IST

    With the Telangana government set to make sweeping changes to the land administration in the state, a revenue officials hands over registration books to special deputy collector T L Sangeeta in Hyderabad. (DC Photo: P Surendra)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Who will reform our huge army of babus?

    Narendra Modi said he would restructure the bureaucracy but nothing has been heard of it since then

    29 Sept 2020 3:14 PM IST

    Despite having two often widely overlapping LACs, Indian and Chinese forces had arrived at a unique modus vivendi since 1962 which enabled each side to patrol up to its perception of the LAC without confrontation. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Mediation vital on LAC, Ladakh disengagement

    The problem is that India and China never agreed on where the LAC was, as the perceptions of what each side...

    15 Sept 2020 4:48 PM IST

    A rikshaw puller rests near a deserted road during a day-long state-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against the surge in Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Siliguri. PTI PhotoOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Is another global economic crisis now inevitable?

    The essential problem we must confront is how to rectify a world economic system that has gone hopelessly wrong

    1 Sept 2020 5:56 PM IST

    X