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Mohan Guruswamy

All stories by Mohan Guruswamy

Time to Lockout the Lockdown
Rediff.com1 May 2020

'We need to have the courage to take a rational look at known facts and act...

Is India paying too much for Rafale?
Rediff.com15 Nov 2019

'What the price will reveal, since the India specific capabilities haven't changed...

How the Congress can counter Modi
Rediff.com18 Sep 2019

'What the Congress needs now is an ideological and social contrast to the BJP.' 'The...

Why we must salute both Nehru and Patel
Rediff.com31 Oct 2018

'Both Nehru and Patel were thorough gentlemen and whatever their differences never...

Who Got the Bofors Money?
Rediff.com23 Oct 2018

The Congress kept sheltering Quattrochi, and the BJP was more intent on shielding the...

Our Modiji is the master of illusion
Rediff.com11 Sep 2018

'Our first great challenge is to create 12 million new jobs each year, to make the...

Mallikarjun Kharge: Man of the hour
Rediff.com13 Aug 2015

Mallikarjun Kharge showed that when the hour was on hand, he was the man, says Mohan...

Nagaland: One political compromise after another
Rediff.com10 Aug 2015

'The Naga Hills region, Nagaland and Manipur, have had the most uncaring and corrupt...

Kalam made us believe the sky was never too high
Rediff.com28 Jul 2015

'As a nation we came up short, but that did not deter Kalam. He made it his life...

The myth of the Magna Carta
Rediff.com26 Jun 2015

The Magna Carta was not quite a grand demand for equality, freedoms and rule of law but...

Economic growth: Adding some water to the milk!
Rediff.com3 Jun 2015

In the year since UPA went out, the GDP has grown a mere 0.5 per cent, but this...

Shifting people from Bharat to India
Rediff.com1 Jun 2015

Modi is as divorced from reality as Manmohan Singh. He might want to sound expansive...

'France is more mercenary than we like'
Rediff.com10 Apr 2015

'Despite frequent high-level interactions there has been little traction on substantive...

Nobel Peace Prize: For less than noble reasons
Rediff.com27 Oct 2014

For a start this award has a history of having less to do with actual contributions and...

Why we should not blindly trust the US dollar
Rediff.com13 Oct 2014

The fact that the US dollar has become the world's preferred reserve currency is now...

Why India may never become a world power
Rediff.com4 Sep 2014

The power of a nation is directly related to the revenues it realises from its...

Why it need not be Japan or China for India
Rediff.com2 Sep 2014

Narendra Modi and his government should look at the emerging geo-politics realistically...

Rise of Naxalism: Blame India's skewed mining policy
Rediff.com26 Aug 2014

It is the low cost of iron ore extracted from their adivasi homeland mines that enables...

Think tanks help the nation's intellectual churn
Rediff.com19 Aug 2014

I still believe that it is a good thing that think tanks are mushrooming in Delhi. They...

Should Tata be ranked India's best brand?
Rediff.com18 Aug 2014

Famous and long believed to be trusted Indian brands have wilted against foreign...