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Mohan Guruswamy

Mohan Guruswamy

Retired bureaucrat

The writer is Chairman, Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi.

By Mohan Guruswamy

Mudra scheme: Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to stop lying to the nation

The share of small loan accounts has been dropping steadily for over a decade and there is no sign of it moving upwards.

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Budget 2018: Did Arun Jaitley just sell us a lemon?

As usual, the government is just distracting us with promises and hoping to stave off the inevitable - popular discontent.

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Vijay Mallya isn't coming back, but he's not the villain who got away

We are forgetting the bankers who lent Kingfisher Airlines for something quite as spurious as its brand name.

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1962 war: When Nehru decided to strike against China despite Army chief's advice

It was not timed to coincide with the Cuban missile crisis.

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Is the bullet train the silver bullet to save the Indian Railways?

The Kakodkar panel pegged the cost of implementing safety measures at about Rs 1 lakh crore. Even a fraction of that money could not be arranged.

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Why Modi's Cabinet reshuffle, too, was not to improve the effectiveness of government

So much for experience, technocracy and professionalism.

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The enduring legacy of John F Kennedy

53 years after, my thoughts go back to the morning I read about JFK's assassination in 'The Daily News', a defunct Hyderabad daily.

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What if Kashmir had remained an independent state?

Imagine the consequences implicit for New Delhi, Islamabad and Beijing with the supposedly free state wedged in between them?

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Do not go gentle into that good night, Modiji

The nearness of the end of life makes the leader, however powerful they might seem, a lame duck leader.

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Pakistan will not get into a nuclear war with India that easily

I disagree that it will employ TNWs even for a single major retaliatory territorial ingress by an Indian armoured column.

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