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Mihir S Sharma

Mihir S Sharma

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Beyond the buzzwords

Narendra Modi isn't quite the reformer his advocates try to sell him as being

The Babu Raj

Around the dining tables of New India, on its social networks and in its apartment-block stairwells, the judgments grow harsher daily: Delhi is steeped in moral compromise, with a power elite that genuflects only to politicians and political ...

Trading charges

A failure to sign the India-EU free-trade agreement soon will be a final betrayal of the principles of 1991

Not so frank after all

China makes things, we mine things. They lend us money, we buy the things they dump on us. Complementary indeed, and not something the Chinese will change out of the goodness of their hearts

The wrong song

Truthfully, if anything is a real national symbol, it is Parliament, representing in its diversity, ours; and in its debate, constitutional liberalism. Barq should not be asked to prove his loyalty to

Damned if you do

If the PM had just chosen to behave as if there wasn't anything wrong or manipulable about existing systems, he wouldn't have been in such trouble today

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