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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 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

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

    Telangana had backwardness written into its geography. It had backwardness written into its sociology. And it had backwardness hard-wired into its mentality. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Andhra & Telangana: The trial marriage that failed

    The story is of a deep cultural divide between two peoples united by language but divided by habits, values, history and...

    25 Jan 2023 12:05 AM IST

    File photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi waving at people from the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river. (Representational Image/PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Will linking rivers' work, or end up as a disaster?

    The project, when completed, will consist of 30 links, with 36 dams and 10,800 km of canals diverting 174,000 million...

    10 Jan 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Far from being the competitors of the United States, China and India are still its under-economies, serving it with cheap labour working on repetitive jobs and repetitive number crunching. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | What is the prescription for America's many ills?

    The problem with the US is, it lives far beyond its means and its profligacy has left it as a debtor, unable to pay its...

    27 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    It is now up to Rahul Gandhi to nurture inner-party democracy by deferring to Mr Kharge as the leader and letting him run the party. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Dynastic politics in India: Long live our democracy!

    Except for the CPI(M) and the BJP, every political party in India has a dynastic line of succession, or more aptly...

    20 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

    If there are two large and rising powers in a region, rivalry is inevitable. (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Are India and China going to be rivals for all time?

    The roots of our problem with China go back a couple of hundred years when Emperor Napoleon and Tsar Alexander met in...

    6 Dec 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | The 1962 India-China war: In dubious battle

    Governmental decision-making still characterised by ad hocism and a tendency to grandstand

    22 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Chintan Shivir of Home Ministers of states in Surajkund, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Friday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Reforming public sector doesn't mean selling it

    Mr PM Modi dismantled all these councils and committees and everything is now concentrated with him

    8 Nov 2022 12:00 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Desis in America: How some think and behave

    Gujaratis, referred to within the desi community as Gujjus, are more entrepreneurial by nature and tend to be in...

    19 Oct 2022 6:56 AM IST

    Indian flags (Representational Image)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Only small states will be able to save the republic

    Demand for new administrative units will be a continuous one, one that seeks to bring distant provincial govts in remote...

    11 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

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