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Sanjaya Baru
About the AuthorSanjaya Baru
The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
    If hundreds of thousands of Indians are going overseas for education, tens of thousands come to India. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Visa queues get longer as drain becomes a tsunami

    Indians applying for a tourist visa to go to the United States this year have been informed that their application...

    22 Aug 2022 12:29 AM IST

    Indian flags (Representational Image)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Flag of freedom: Tricolour of a multi-coloured nation

    We have all been invited to drape our patriotism this week in the colours of the national flag. There was a time when...

    8 Aug 2022 12:25 AM IST

    Shinzo Abe (AP file photo)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Why Shinzo Abe emerged as Japan’s most significant PM

    Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose tragic assassination on July 8 was mourned all around the world,...

    25 July 2022 4:24 AM IST

    New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Pradhan Mantri Sangrahalaya, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Revisiting PMs: Museum in Delhi underplays PV  

    It is not clear whether it was just intellectual laziness or bureaucratic safe play or just plain bias that the...

    10 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

    In barely three years, Adani has gained control of seven airports and almost a quarter of Indias air traffic. (Bloomberg)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Indian business in need of neighbourhood diplomacy

    Corporate controversies in distant developing countries do not make waves in the Indian media

    26 Jun 2022 9:42 PM IST

    Rashtrapati Bhavan plays a very important role after the Lok Sabha polls in the formation of the new government. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The race for Raisina Hill: Who’ll be our next Prez?

    Enjoying the PM’s trust is a primary qualification for the job

    13 Jun 2022 2:41 AM IST

    Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi during the programme at Indian School of Business campus, Gachibowli, Hyderabad. (Photo by arrangement)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | From politics to business: All eyes are on Hyderabad

    Hyderabad has been used to attracting national and international attention for a long time

    30 May 2022 6:54 AM IST

    Political strategist Prashant Kishor. (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The Mahatma Brand: From Nehru to Prashant Kishor

    The Indian National Congress was the first political party, inspired by the Mahatma, to successfully launch itself as a...

    16 May 2022 12:14 AM IST

    Recently, the YSRC has won 86 percent MPTC, 98 percent ZPTC and 82.80 per cent seats in municipal and corporation elections. Representational Image (AP)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Rising freebies: The fiscal price of political failures

    When political parties promise free television sets, kitchenware and suchlike, they are using the taxpayer’s money to...

    2 May 2022 12:41 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden (PTI file image)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | US does a lot for India, but India too does a lot for...

    What the bilateral trade figures do not reveal is the transfer of wealth from India to the US through the export of...

    18 April 2022 12:05 AM IST

    India has to keep focussing on competitive energy sources and it welcomes offers from all oil producers as geopolitical developments have posed significant challenges to the countrys energy security, sources said. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | The other divide: E-W conflict meets N-S gap

    India will have to remain firmly focused on the economy given the multiple challenges it continues to face

    4 April 2022 12:34 AM IST

    Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday approved the proposal of constitution of political affairs committee of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC). (PTI)Opinion
    Sanjaya Baru | Dissolving a proprietorship: Congress must reinvent to...

    The idea of dynastic succession within the Nehru family, however, goes far back and all the way to 1928

    21 March 2022 12:03 AM IST

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