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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

Not counting the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi had just begun his innings, Karnataka has handed the BJP its worst electoral drubbing in Mr Modis nine years in power, when he has presided over not just the Union government but also over his partys fate, bending it to his every wish. (Photo: PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | The Need For A Common And Secular Civil Code

All personal laws in India are misogynistic and medieval.

4 July 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), at White House in Washington, Friday, June 23, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Mohan Guruswamy | The Narendra Modi style of governing a complex...

The PM is number one and the organisation is flat after that

27 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Before Gogra, Indian and Chinese troops had disengaged from Galwan Valley and Pangong Tso in Ladakh. Representational image/PTI

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Mohan Guruswamy | India-China LAC: Is give & take possible after...

In the Galwan Valley, China's People's Liberation Army found an unguarded but very strategic spot on the LAC and...

13 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

Members in the Lok Sabha during Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi. (Sansad TV/PTI Photo)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Let's move from unitary state to Union of States

The delimitation exercise now underway will reduce the weightage in Parliament of the states that did better

6 Jun 2023 12:05 AM IST

On September 8, 1962, units of Chinas Peoples Liberation Army had surrounded a small Indian Army post at Tsenjang on the northern bank of the Namka Chu stream just below the disputed Thagla ridge at the India-Bhutan-Tibet trijunction. Representational Image. (Twitter)

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Mohan Guruswamy | China & Arunachal: Learn from history, experience

At the crux of this issue is the larger question of the national identities of the two nations and when and how they...

1 Jun 2023 12:54 AM IST

Some 60 per cent of Indians who still depend financially on farming struggle with debt, bankruptcy and endemic suicide. (Representational Image/ DC File)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Suicides are no indication of India's farmers'...

Suicide is a matter of psychology, and not of economics no matter how tempting that may be to exaggerate an issue

9 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

There is no doubt that Punjab is a major foodgrain production centre, but the notion that it feeds India is quite exaggerated. (Representational image: PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | The downfall of Punjab, and lessons for the rest of...

Even though Punjabis account for less than 2.5 per cent of India's population, they are one of the most prosperous races...

2 May 2023 7:26 AM IST

Voters show their identification cards as they wait in queues to cast their votes at a polling booth during the Tripura Assembly elections, in Rajnagar, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. (Representational Image/PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of society are we, how much of a...

We were always a hybrid democracy, direct democracy at the local levels and representative democracy at the regional and...

25 April 2023 1:03 AM IST

The Multi-agency Group, so far, has submitted seven reports to the government about its investigation on Panama Papers.

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Mohan Guruswamy | Panama Papers: Nothing done; no questions asked

Now Panama is synonymous with offshore corporations and assured secrecy

18 April 2023 12:07 AM IST

The Indus river in Gilgit-Baltistan region in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. (AP File Photo)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Indus waters: Yawning gap between threat and reality

World Bank brokered the IWT between India and Pak after many years of intense negotiations to allocate the waters of the...

8 March 2023 12:05 AM IST

China reached the one billion milestone in 1980, while India got there in 1997. (Representational Image)

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Mohan Guruswamy | China's people crisis and lessons India must learn

China has hit an impenetrable economic wall. The People's Republic now has a people crisis it has now stopped growing...

7 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

RRR is a fictional take on the younger days of celebrated freedom fighters, Komaram Bheem and Alluri Seetharama Raju. (Photo: Twitter/@RRRMovie)

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Mohan Guruswamy | RRR: It's just a vulgar distortion of history

The movie was made with utter disregard to the life and times of our two heroes.

31 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST