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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 | 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

    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,...

    19 May 2024 12:10 AM IST

    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 11:54 PM IST

    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...

    19 April 2024 1:13 AM IST

    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...

    17 Oct 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Big ideas for change: What 2023 Eco Nobel is all aboutOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Big ideas for change': What 2023 Eco Nobel is all...

    When Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, I was asked by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...

    13 Oct 2023 12:57 AM IST

    A file photo shows the Indian army personnel carring out drills at Kibithu close to the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. (PTI File Photo)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Amid India-China friction, we need to set real' LAC

    We have two outstanding issues between India and China. The larger one is about the large tracts of territory in Ladakh...

    5 Oct 2023 12:48 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Its time for a retirement age for Indias politiciansOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | It's time for a retirement age for India's...

    In the last question to Yudhishthira at the lakeside, the Yaksha asks: “What is the greatest wonder?”...

    26 Sept 2023 12:13 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Fighting for the soul of India, from HyderabadOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Fighting for the soul of India, from Hyderabad

    Once again, as it was in 1978 and 1980, the Congress’ road to regain the political crown in New Delhi seems to...

    16 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Wholl be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Who'll be awarded the next Nobel Prize in Economics?

    This is a time of great excitement in the ivory towers of economics faculties in the world’s storied universities...

    29 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | Adivasis, the first Indians, cheated by Constitution?Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Adivasis, the first Indians, cheated by...

    The migration of outsiders into the traditional Adivasi homelands continues unabated

    23 Aug 2023 12:00 AM IST

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