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Mohan Guruswamy
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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
    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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    Mohan Guruswamy | The God business is good business all across India

    Religion is now, not just increasingly a part of our politics, but also, and even more so, of our economics

    24 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

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    Mohan Guruswamy | Force majeure' can't be fig leaf for naked greed

    It will be interesting to know if the government has been told by Reliance or Airtel of their inability to pay the...

    9 April 2021 4:13 AM IST

    Indian soldiers keep watch at India-China border. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | The challenges of living next to Chinese dragon

    It would thus seem India and China are destined to live out the foreseeable future as rivals, if not adversaries

    23 March 2021 7:25 AM IST

    The Indian flag flies at the Civil Secretariat in Srinagar on Sunday. The Jammu & Kashmir flag has been removed after the abrogation of Article 370. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Stop meddle & muddle: Rework regional policy

    Our diplomats have tended to be overbearing with the smaller non-hostile neighbours, often treating them like errant...

    9 March 2021 11:17 AM IST

    Indian army soldiers ride in a convoy along a highway leading towards Leh, bordering China, in Gagangir on 17 June 2020. (AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | India must learn from Chanakya, not a Shah!

    India's pursuit of iron-clad national security and global status ambitions makes it annually import as much as $20...

    4 March 2021 7:10 AM IST

    While it can be argued that a Security Council of a smaller number of countries is desirable to make the UN effective, it must also reflect world realities and be more representative of its diversity. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Does India want to be a Tier-2 UNSC member?

    India has asked for a greater and comprehensive reform in the responses, processes and character of the UN

    9 Feb 2021 4:42 AM IST

    Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, February 03, 2021Opinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | No new taxes? Budget's Mahabharata lessons

    Even in a much smaller economy like India, in the ultimate analysis it's the state of the economy that determines...

    4 Feb 2021 7:20 AM IST

    The Delhi Gymkhana Club. Photo: delhigymkhana.org.inOpinion
    Mohan Guruswamy | Elite clubs bastions of hereditary entitlement

    After the white man departed, these clubs turned into a preserve of the new Indian elite -- many called them the 'brown...

    1 Feb 2021 7:17 AM IST

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