Top
Home ยป Mohan Guruswamy
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
    A pedestrian walks on a bridge above vehicle traffic in New Delhi, as the city is enveloped under thick smog. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Un-crowding India's capital and decentralising of...

    Dispersing offices across the nation will not only decongest Delhi, but will also become economic drivers that will...

    25 July 2023 12:02 AM IST

    Mohan Guruswamy | The myth of Magna Carta: The struggle still goes onOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The myth of Magna Carta: The struggle still goes on

    It is from the Magna Carta that the English writ of habeas corpus evolved.

    11 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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/PTIOpinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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.Opinion
    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)Opinion
    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

    X