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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
    RRR is a fictional take on the younger days of celebrated freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Seetharama Raju. (Photo: Twitter/@RRRMovie)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | RRR: It’s just a vulgar distortion of history

    I saw the movie RRR on Netflix the other evening. It was everything I expected it to be. Extremely well made and...

    31 Jan 2023 1:00 AM IST

    Telangana had backwardness written into its geography. It had backwardness written into its sociology. And it had backwardness hard-wired into its mentality. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Andhra & Telangana: The trial marriage that failed

    On January 3 this year, A. Sridhar Reddy, the founder of the Sampoorna Telangana Praja Samithi in 1969, the organisation...

    25 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

    File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will ‘linking rivers’ work, or end up as a...

    I keep hearing that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to unveil the often spoken and then shelved ‘Rivers Link...

    10 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America’s many ills?

    About a decade ago, Tom Friedman and Michael Mandrelbaum wrote a long lament titled “That Used to be US. What Went...

    27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

    In recent days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been lamenting the rise of dynastic political parties. He is right....

    20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    The Indian Army has said agressive local incidents on the Line of Actual Control are resolved through local meetings ofOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?

    The short answer to whether India and China will always be rivals is a resounding “yes”. But rivals need not...

    6 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

    I was in school in 1962, but the events of September, October and November are still etched in my mind. They still tell...

    22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Desis in America: How some think and behave

    The sheer crudity of the NRI “bulldozer” rally in the armpit town of Edison, New Jersey, reminded me of...

    19 Oct 2022 12:08 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Only small states will be able to save the republic

    The creation of Telangana, almost 60 years after the people of the region voiced their misgivings about being co-opted...

    11 Oct 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Cover page of the Calligraphic copy of the Constitution of India in English released on the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Republic of India in Central Hall of Parliament House on January 27, 2000 (Photo credit: Department of Justice, Governemnt of India)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Towards a common civil & secular code for India

    The cornerstone of a democratic society is equality. Without equality, there can be no justice, just as without justice...

    21 Sept 2022 1:48 AM IST

    The Dera Sacha Sauda of Ram Rahim Singh has been a cult that was much in the news. (Representatioanl Image/AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?

    Way back in 1843 Karl Marx in an introduction to a book that criticised Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of the...

    6 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

    The roots of our problem with China go back a few hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July 1807 (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | How India got saddled with Aksai Chin mess

    The roots of our problem with China go back a few hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in July...

    23 Aug 2022 12:08 AM IST

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