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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
    Five Supreme Court judges Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi (centre) flanked by Justice Ashok Bhushan (left), Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde (second from left), Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (second from right), Justice S. Abdul Nazeer (right) pose for a photograph after delivering the verdict on Ayodhya land case in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A Solomonic verdict, but not quite closure

    Advani is still the popular villain of the liberal set because he set off on his Rath Yatra wanting a Ram Mandir built...

    10 Nov 2019 2:39 AM IST

    The UN has grown much since then, reflecting the changes in the world mostly due to decolonisation, fragmentation of the USSR, and the division of some founder member states like Yugoslavia.Opinion
    It’s high time to push UN’s democratisation

    The UN now has 191 members, and Switzerland was the last to join on September 10, 2002.

    6 Nov 2019 6:01 AM IST

    Air pollution contributes substantially to premature mortality and disease burden globally, with a greater impact in low-income and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. (Representational image)Opinion
    Winds of climate change blow across South Asia

    According to the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Pakistan officially crossed the water scarcity line in...

    30 Oct 2019 4:40 AM IST

    The major components of air pollution are ambient particulate matter pollution, household air pollution, and to a smaller extent ozone in the troposphere, the lowest layer of atmosphere.Opinion
    Winds of climate change blow across South Asia

    Due to excessive pumping, it is estimated that water tables could fall by as much as 20 per cent by 2025.

    29 Oct 2019 1:16 AM IST

    The debate on electoral reforms focuses almost entirely on the funding of political parties and the expenses incurred in campaigning as if just taking care of these would ensure a clean polity.Opinion
    To reform politics, ensure inner-party democracy

    Having periodic elections alone doesn’t make a nation democratic. Democracy also means government by discussion.

    24 Oct 2019 12:29 AM IST

    Threat to turn off water to Pakistan is unworkableOpinion
    Threat to turn off water to Pakistan is unworkable

    PM Modi rode to power promising to deter Pakistani-origin terrorism in India by threatening retribution, and is now hard...

    21 Oct 2019 1:32 AM IST

    Eco Nobel: From philosophical to pragmaticOpinion
    Eco Nobel: From philosophical to pragmatic

    The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was instituted in 1968 by the Swedish central...

    16 Oct 2019 7:41 AM IST

    Act swiftly now, or allow India to go up in smoke!Opinion
    Act swiftly now, or allow India to go up in smoke!

    Tobacco farming makes a huge footprint on our agriculture and now accounts for 4,95,000 hectares of the most fertile...

    11 Oct 2019 12:18 AM IST

    On finding a democratic alternative to the RSSOpinion
    On finding a democratic alternative to the RSS

    The Congress Party leadership resolved that it would create a new Congress Seva Dal to replicate the RSS’ booth level...

    18 Sept 2019 7:42 AM IST

    Conversion: The next frontier for Modi govt?Opinion
    Conversion: The next frontier for Modi govt?

    The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we have accepted that we hold certain rights to be...

    9 Sept 2019 12:11 AM IST

    The truth about us Indians: Who are we, and whyOpinion
    The truth about us Indians: Who are we, and why

    The only indigenous people in India are the Adivasis, who Nihar Ranjan Ray had described as ‘the original...

    23 Aug 2019 7:56 AM IST

    Will a CDS mean the end of inter-service wars?Opinion
    Will a CDS mean the end of inter-service wars?

    It would suffice to say that every major military power in the world has a combined defence organisation.

    19 Aug 2019 12:22 AM IST

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