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Mohan Guruswamy
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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 Security Council holds a meeting to address the invasion of Ukraine at the United Nations headquarters on February 28, 2022 in New York City. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of a role should India get in a wider...

    India’s diplomacy for the past many years has increasingly focused on securing permanent membership of the UN Security...

    18 April 2022 11:55 PM IST

    The threat of an implicit nuclear escalation is not all that uncommon. (Representational Image/ AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Nuclear bombast: Is there a method in the madness?

    Since nuclear weapons cannot really be used, their only utility lies in the mere threat of their use

    7 April 2022 12:37 AM IST

    The shortage of working-age people and its unwillingness to alter its immigration policies to attract a more skilled workforce and to draw highly educated technology professionals due to age-old prejudices will cost Europe dearly. (Represenatational Image/ AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | As world is transforming, Europe getting irrelevant

    Within two decades, global GDP and power rankings will see substantial changes

    29 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

    A huge crowd gathers at Ramnagar fish market on Sunday, with little regard for social distancing or other COVID-19 norms. (S. Surender Reddy/DC)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Small states are a must for better governance

    Uttar Pradesh is larger in terms of population than Brazil, Japan or Bangladesh

    22 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Why is Gondwana’s land of Koitur left neglected?

    Wherever the Gonds still speak their own language, they refer to themselves as Koi, or Koitur

    18 March 2022 11:29 PM IST

    Unlike some others, Indias Constitution doesnt recognise the institution of political parties. Its the same in other serious and major democracies. (Representational image: PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Anti-defection law and inner-party democracy

    Political parties are extra or non-constitutional arrangements to organise people on the basis of shared ideas,...

    1 March 2022 6:48 AM IST

    The Godhra incident, ahead of the 2002 Gujarat polls, led to a pogrom and polarised Gujarat as never before. (Representational Image/ Twitter)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Who lit the fire on Sabarmati Exp at Godhra 20 years...

    A nation which forgives and forgets such huge assaults on its person is only condemned to suffer more of them

    27 Feb 2022 2:19 AM IST

    Deccan default cover imageOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | On secularism, conversion and the nature of religion

    The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we accept that we hold certain rights to be inalienable

    23 Feb 2022 2:36 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What has led to failure of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

    We not only spit everywhere, we piss everywhere, we shit wherever and dump our garbage anywhere

    15 Feb 2022 1:31 AM IST

    Indian Press Information Bureau (PIB) shows a hologram of the statue of Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose that was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in New Delhi. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | RSS and freedom struggle: Still in search of...

    One now has to see the move to instal the statue of Subhas Chandra Bose in the vacant canopy on Rajpath as another act...

    27 Jan 2022 3:09 AM IST

    In the year 2019-20, the total national foodgrain production was 292 million tons, of which Punjab produced about 11.06 per cent. (Representational Image/ DC)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab: Can it be ‘model’ again?

    From a breadbasket state it has now become a basket case that is engorged on huge subsidies such as MSP and free...

    17 Jan 2022 11:50 PM IST

    Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. (PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | An important lesson from history for Narendra Modi

    What is worrisome is that we know history is not Mr Modi’s forte

    12 Jan 2022 1:30 AM IST

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