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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

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

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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