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Mohan Guruswamy

Mohan Guruswamy

Retired bureaucrat

mohanguru@gmail.com

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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Indus Waters Treaty: Turning off the taps to Pakistan

Not only is Islamabad running out of water, it seems to be soon running out of time.

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Do we need a global central bank and a global reserve currency?

With the economic balance of power shifting towards Asia, we must move past the US dollar as the world’s preferred option.

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Why India is nation in search of a State

No sooner you get off the tarmac, roads and highways, all signs of government disappear.

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When will India stop rewarding incompetence in the military?

Outstanding officers with a strong individuality and intellectual curiosity get culled by the stubborn seniority system.

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Cheated of Constitution, why Adivasis remain India's second class citizens

The tribals have paid dearly for taking Jawaharlal Nehru at his word.

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Zakir Naik is full of rubbish, but doesn't spew hate

He's not as bad as a Pravin Togadia or that Sadhvi Pragya Thakur.

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Politics aside, equal India needs a secular and common civil code

But parties that profess to be secular and those who profess to oppose pseudo-secularism pander equally to religious obscurantists the most.

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Can't blame Pakistan, Pampore attack shows hatred for India in J&K

Central forces cannot behave like an occupation army.

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NSG: Modi, Doval, Jaishankar have disgraced India

Thankfully for them Brexit and Rexit serve to hide the magnitude of this diplomatic misadventure.

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Exposing Subramanian Swamy's 'patriotic' bites frenzy

Will he turn on Modi too, like he once did on the RSS?

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FDI reforms at last: Kudos to Modi sarkar

India is now expected to become a market-friendly and efficient economy with little space left for cronyism.

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India is no place for good people like Raghuram Rajan

While we are at it, why not imagine Dr Subramanian Swamy as the RBI governor?

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Why Russians won't give nuclear attack submarine to Modi

The requirement of its Navy takes priority.

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Economic blues. Where are the green shoots, Jaitley?

A full two years after Manmohan Singh demitted office, the GDP has grown a mere 0.5 per cent.

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How BJP/RSS has failed to weed out the Wahabi/Saudi combine

Instead we see them sucking up to an illegitimate family control over a nation and holiest of Muslim shrines.

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Why India is a nation in search of a state

In the hinterlands, no sooner you get off the tarmac roads and highways, all signs of government disappear.

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Sad SC stopped short of allowing non-Brahmins as priests

This was a great opportunity for it to make an omnibus determination on discrimination and not allow any religious or social institution from practising it.

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Modi's bullet trains are a waste of money, Indian Railways can't afford it

Government hasn't coughed up even a fraction of the Rs 8,00,000 crore outlay required to bring about much-needed modernisation of the dilapidated tracks.

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How Indian media ignored Japanese PM's kind gesture: FB post goes viral

Shinzo Abe sent a bouquet of flowers and a letter of condolence to the family of deceased constable who guarded him during his visit.

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Can Indians even claim they're from India?

The word out now is that we are an indigenous people. Nothing can be further from the truth.

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