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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
    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

    A file photo of Red Fort. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | How did we do in 75 years? Clearly, better than...

    If India were to be horizontally sliced by income, it can be said to be three overlaid countries

    18 Aug 2022 11:20 PM IST

    The United States and some other countries have a whole array of space satellites orbiting at preselected trajectories to watch over their areas of interest. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Beware world! Big Brother is listening and...

    On July 31, Osama bin Laden’s successor as the global head of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, stepped out on to the...

    9 Aug 2022 12:07 AM IST

    Israeli ruthlessness was most evident in recent times by its retaliation on the Gaza Strip, horrific its ferocity and far exceeding any limits of justifiable and even acceptable retribution (Representational Image/AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Why State of Israel has lost its heroic sheen

    Israel acquired a heroic sheen from the manner it had created a nation for itself, after over two millennia of...

    2 Aug 2022 11:50 PM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Brics’ real value: One step towards new world...

    While “Brics” has been a frequently occurring acronym in our discourse in recent years, not many seem to...

    27 July 2022 7:44 AM IST

    The grandiose Hambantota port project in Sri Lanka, which once had the same bunch of Indian strategic thinkers in a tizzy, hosts no ships and doesnt earn much. China is now pressuring Sri Lankans to service its debt and is seeking to extract some more in lieu of that. (Wikimedia)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | China’s Belt and Road drive was just another...

    The 2008 US financial meltdown was a consequence of the sub-prime mortgage crisis which followed as a consequence of...

    18 July 2022 11:53 PM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Rewriting history, with an open mind or empty mind?

    In recent years, the Sangh Parivar’s historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological...

    6 July 2022 7:21 AM IST

    NDA candidate Droupadi Murmu files her nomination papers for presidential election in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, at Parliament House, in New Delhi, Friday, June 24, 2022. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will Murmu remember the unkept promises to tribals?

    Like indigenous people around the globe, India’s adivasis too have been savaged and ravaged by later people claiming...

    27 Jun 2022 11:39 PM IST

    Binu P.G., a teacher who undertakes trips for academic purposes, is keen to see academic institutions come up with Constitution Clubs.Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | 15% rule: Size of Cabinets and the 91st Amendment

    The real problem is that with unlimited ministerships on offer, the destabilisation of governments was made easier

    7 Jun 2022 12:45 AM IST

    Students walk in formation with the Indian flag during full dress rehearsal. (Representational Photo:PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | From a unitary state to a Union of States

    India was never intended to be a saffron-hued monochromatic state, but a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual...

    30 May 2022 11:40 PM IST

    Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

    Sensitivity to each other’s feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

    21 May 2022 12:53 AM IST

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