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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
    India produced about 50 million tons of foodgrains in 1947, while it produces five times that much now. Representational Image. (PTI)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Aug. 15 thoughts: We've done better than most; let's...

    India now adds 17 per cent to world GDP growth, giving it a considerable economic heft

    15 Aug 2021 3:47 AM IST

    claims NSO IT minister has said some of the countries listed in the Pegasus expose as its clients are incorrect. Representational Image (Twitter)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Who's behind Pegasus and why it's no big deal

    The only difference between them and NSO is that the Israeli company is a white-black operation

    5 Aug 2021 1:58 AM IST

    A 14c copy of Magna Carta in the MertonCollege library. (Twitter)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Liberty and rights for all: Myth of the Magna Carta

    Magna Carta came out of an intra-elite struggle between 40 barons and their King

    13 July 2021 9:11 AM IST

    The Union Cabinet can have up to 81 members, but currently there are only 53 (with 28 vacancies). (ANI file photo)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Cabinet rejig: PM needs to look for better talent

    If PM Modi wants to survive politically and leave a well- regarded legacy, the surest way would be to make his...

    6 July 2021 7:07 AM IST

    Right now, there is a physical difference between the PMs House and the PMs Office. By coalescing these together, we will be creating a White House or even a Kremlin, with executive power concentrated in one structure. (Twitter)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Modi's new architecture for govt may hurt India

    What should cause us concern is the centrality of the Prime Minister's residence and office to this new layout

    24 Jun 2021 7:03 AM IST

    More than a lakh Mysureans performed Yoga with virtual instructions of 12 Yoga experts of Mysuru Yoga federation via facebook live from Mysuru Palace premises. (DC Photo)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | India's culture & how it evolved Yoga is exercise,...

    If yoga is Hindu, then karate is Buddhist, kung fu is Confucian and taekwondo also Buddhist

    18 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | It's not for India to clean up the Afghanistan mess

    If that Afghan situation were to boil over it will spill out mostly into Pakistan, a country quite dedicated to our...

    8 Jun 2021 7:15 AM IST

    These findings highlight the urgent need for countries to implement stronger tobacco control measures (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Tobacco India's top health crisis: Act now, or just...

    It is not that the incidence of smoking is low in India if we take into consideration the widespread bidi habit

    31 May 2021 7:39 AM IST

    Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India. India crossed a grim milestone Wednesday, April 28, 2021 of 200,000 people lost to the coronavirus as a devastating surge of new infections tears through dense cities and rural areas alike and overwhelms health care systems on the brink of collapse. (AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Hubris, narcissim and moment of hamartia'

    The sin of hubris has been a continuing theme that has captured the imagination of historians, philosophers and...

    25 May 2021 9:24 PM IST

    Israeli forces flares light up the sky in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 16, 2021. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Israel's brutality in Gaza has dented heroic image

    The founding of the State of Israel held out the promise of a new nation

    17 May 2021 8:16 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Check India's corruption, or insurgencies will go up

    A just and relatively honest society requires a system that inflicts swift and commensurate retribution on transgressors

    11 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

    Prime Minister Modis inability to defend India against the second Covid-19 wave, and his inability to cajole the Chinese from withdrawing from areas they occupied in Ladakh now make him an easy target. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Bengal's thinking is clear: Will rest of India...

    The Gujarat model has been long exposed as bogus. There is light seen at the end of the tunnel

    4 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

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