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Ukraine: As history returns to haunt the world
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

In the early 1990s, Francis Fukuyama proclaimed that with the liberal democracy and the free market economy of the West finally emerging as a one-size-fits-all model for all nations, all conflicts that were the source of history had ended. That becam

March 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Globalisation, NATO, Ukraine, America, Vladimir Putin
Budget 2022-23 – A huge turning point
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

There are several firsts about Budget 2022-23. The first of the firsts is that this is the only Budget in recent memory when the finance minister’s speech was not disturbed even once. The usual shoutings for this or that segment, or for states were

February 03, 2022 Economic Studies, Article, RBI, MGNREGA, Budget 2022-23, food subsidy, fertiliser subsidy
Congrats Mr Tirumurti for defending an Orphaned Civilisation
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

You, the United Nations, cry about Islamophobia, Christianophobia, anti-Semiticism – all three Abrahamic religions. But what about non-Abrahamic religious phobias – the anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh and anti-Buddhist? You should see that also.” Approxi

January 24, 2022 Historical and Civilisational Studies, Article, Islamophobia, Christianophobia, anti-Semiticism, anti-Hindu, anti-Sikh, anti-Buddhist
India 1989-2014 and after — a paradigm shift
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Why China, why not India?” is a question debated in India without a credible answer. Asking an identical question, “Why China flew, India just grew?” Forbes magazine (2019) answered that it was because of the barrier-free autocracy in China and

November 30, 2021 Governance and Political Studies, Article, modi, G20, COVID-19, COP26, COVID Challenge, paradigm shift, India vaccine, G7-plus
Is Supreme Court an ISIS accomplice, Mr Khurshid?
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Hindutva depicts the way of life of Indian people, their state of mind and ethos. Hindu, Hindutva and Hinduism cannot be confined to the narrow limits of religion alone excluding the content of Indian culture and heritage. Or confined to merely descr

November 16, 2021 Governance and Political Studies, Article
Will US politics bury or expose truth?
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Respected science writer Nicholas Wade uncovers more. About how the guild of virology obfuscated, the World Health Organisation was suborned, the anti-Trump US media kept silent and the divided US polity let the culprit escape. Being a disciplined wr

May 28, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, US, PLA, Chinese Military, Media, WHO, COVID-19, Biden Administration, Wuhan Institute, US-China politics
Covid-19: The villain, bats or bat lady
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Even now, what the world knows about the mysterious virus 18 months after it broke out in Wuhan city in China, is that it is mysterious. Though officially called Covid-19 after its name was changed many times within three months of its detection, its

May 27, 2021 International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Commentary, US, China, Global Security, Wuhan virus, WHO, COVID-19, SARS, Wuhan Institute of Virology
Covid: Missing facts, misdirected discourse
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

"One-fifth of Indian districts have not reported any Covid-19 cases for the last seven days. We seem to have flattened the Covid curve,” declared Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan two months back, on February 15. By then the daily infections t

May 04, 2021 Governance and Political Studies, Commentary, India, COVID-19, Oxygen, Dr Harsh Vardhan
Love Jihad: Loving for religion
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Jihad means any effort to promote Islam. Can love (marriage) be integral to promoting Islam? Neutral and Islamic sources say ‘yes, it can be and is’ Robert Epstein, a Harvard psychologist who has researched marriages, contrasts the love marria

November 26, 2020 National Security and Strategic Studies, Commentary, Islam, Jihad, Islamization, Love Jihad, non-muslim
Math and effect of Modi package
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF

Its explicit intent is to provide for the deprived and disturbed through direct fiscal spend from the budget. The Modi stimulus package is in three parts — direct government spend, bank credit, and rate cut and lending by RBI to banks. Modi’s

May 28, 2020 Governance and Political Studies, Economic Studies, Commentary, RBI, COVID-19, G7, GDP, Economic Package, Indian financial model, Modi package
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