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The writer is an economist, a former newspaper editor, a best-selling author, and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

This is the second time that PM Modi will be chairing the BRICS Summit, the first being the Goa Summit in 2016. (PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | Why Brics is still relevant in a divided, post-G20...

Why would an increasing number of countries wish to join an anachronistic group?

21 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets as he addresses at SCO Summit via video conferencing, Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Opinion

Sanjaya Baru | In India's border states, Centre isn't peripheral

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement last week blaming state governments for lapses in ensuring the rule of law, was...

24 July 2023 12:24 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Shinzo Abe's role was key in normalisation of Japan

He re-energised a nation that had begun to stagnate through the 1990s, shaped the geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific...

10 July 2023 12:48 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with US President Joe Biden during the State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington DC, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Opinion

Sanjaya Baru | Modi's Mission America: The dragon in the room

Can US-India co-production eventually help make India truly atma nirbhar ?

26 Jun 2023 12:12 AM IST

Congress workers holding the party flag celebrate the partys win in Karnataka Assembly elections, outside Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Sunday, May 14, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | Karnataka helps breach a psychological barrier

There is no better evidence of this change than the response of the Bengaluru voter to Mr Modi's heavily garlanded...

15 May 2023 12:10 AM IST

Crowd of BJP supporters during Union Home Minister Amit Shahs election campaign rally, in Bhojipura, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | Return of class in India's caste-obsessed politics

Almost all political reporting in the run-up to an election is focused on caste

1 May 2023 12:05 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Amul and dairy co-ops: Milch cows get political

Why should perugu or thayyaru or mosaru be called dahi?

17 April 2023 12:51 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 57th All India Conference of Director Generals/Inspector Generals of Police, in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | Political & electoral funding: Transparency in...

There is no reason to believe that BJP governments, including that of Mr Modi, have been free of the taint of...

3 April 2023 12:20 AM IST

President Xis dual circulation plan, as part of Chinas 14th Five Year Plan (2021-25), the bursting of the real estate bubble and an economic slowdown have combined to put global firms on alert. (AP)

Opinion

Sanjaya Baru | As China bridges Gulf divide, can India draw right...

West Asian energy constitutes an important geo-economic dimension to China's growing stakes in West Asia.

20 March 2023 12:53 AM IST

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Sanjaya Baru | Secession of the successful: Their passage out of India

Ajay Banga is the latest addition to the long list of overseas Indians, mostly citizens of their host countries, to have...

6 March 2023 12:55 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses during the inaugural ceremony of Aero India 2023, in Bengaluru, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. (PTI Photo)

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Sanjaya Baru | If not 126, then 220 Modi deals China card

Prime Minister Modi deserves full marks for the manner in which he has deployed economic incentives in his foreign...

20 Feb 2023 12:00 AM IST

In February 2022 Nirmala Sitharaman had stepped forward to salvage the situation by giving up a key mantra of what economists refer to as neo-liberalism . (File Photo: PTI)

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Sanjaya Baru | The State in the economy and state of the economy

Returning to the 7.0 to 8.0 per cent growth path is the only way in which the next decade can hope to be dubbed as ...

6 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST