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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 framers of Indias Constitution and its Constituent Assembly deliberately and wisely rejected pleas by an articulate minority for a presidential system. (Representational Image)

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Mohan Guruswamy | 15% rule: Size of Cabinets and the 91st Amendment

The real problem is that with unlimited ministerships on offer, the destabilisation of governments was made easier

7 Jun 2022 12:44 AM IST

Students walk in formation with the Indian flag during full dress rehearsal. (Representational Photo:PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | From a unitary state to a Union of States

India was never intended to be a saffron-hued monochromatic state, but a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual...

30 May 2022 11:39 PM IST

Secularism is not mere tolerance of other faiths, but a belief in modern values and reason. (Representational Image/ DC File)

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Mohan Guruswamy | How Hindus and Muslims misunderstood secularism

Sensitivity to each other's feelings and aspirations has to be a mutual affair

21 May 2022 12:52 AM IST

Members of the UN Security Council vote to abstain from a resolution proposed by the Russian Federation and therefore preventing its passage during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at United Nations headquarters. (AP)

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Mohan Guruswamy | What kind of a role should India get in a wider...

India's diplomacy for the past many years has increasingly focused on securing permanent membership of the UN Security...

18 April 2022 10:46 PM IST

A Tepco official wearing radioactive protective gear stands in front of Advanced Liquid Processing Systems during a media tour at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in November 2014. Photo:AP

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Mohan Guruswamy | Nuclear bombast: Is there a method in the madness?

Since nuclear weapons cannot really be used, their only utility lies in the mere threat of their use

7 April 2022 12:39 AM IST

The shortage of working-age people and its unwillingness to alter its immigration policies to attract a more skilled workforce and to draw highly educated technology professionals due to age-old prejudices will cost Europe dearly. (Represenatational Image/ AFP)

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Mohan Guruswamy | As world is transforming, Europe getting irrelevant

Within two decades, global GDP and power rankings will see substantial changes

29 March 2022 12:52 AM IST

People crowd a market after further ease in COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, in Patna. (Representational Photo:PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Small states are a must for better governance

Uttar Pradesh is larger in terms of population than Brazil, Japan or Bangladesh

22 March 2022 12:45 AM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | Why is Gondwana's land of Koitur left neglected?

Wherever the Gonds still speak their own language, they refer to themselves as Koi, or Koitur

18 March 2022 11:28 PM IST

Unlike some others, Indias Constitution doesnt recognise the institution of political parties. Its the same in other serious and major democracies. (Representational image: PTI)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Anti-defection law and inner-party democracy

Political parties are extra or non-constitutional arrangements to organise people on the basis of shared ideas,...

1 March 2022 6:48 AM IST

The Godhra incident, ahead of the 2002 Gujarat polls, led to a pogrom and polarised Gujarat as never before. (Representational Image/ Twitter)

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Mohan Guruswamy | Who lit the fire on Sabarmati Exp at Godhra 20 years...

A nation which forgives and forgets such huge assaults on its person is only condemned to suffer more of them

27 Feb 2022 2:19 AM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | On secularism, conversion and the nature of religion

The acceptance of democracy as a way of life implies that we accept that we hold certain rights to be inalienable

23 Feb 2022 2:36 AM IST

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Mohan Guruswamy | What has led to failure of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan?

We not only spit everywhere, we piss everywhere, we shit wherever and dump our garbage anywhere

15 Feb 2022 1:30 AM IST