S Gurumurthy

Ukraine crisis: The war that is changing relations, rules

Having pushed Ukraine into war, the US does not know how to save it. Having started it, Russia does not know where to end it.

30 Mar 2022

Ukraine: As history returns to haunt the world…

Hegel viewed human history as a continuous struggle between opposing ideas till all conflicts get synthesised finally into the perfect State.

25 Mar 2022

Cabal controlled NSE post 2014, through fake Yogi?

The SEBI, which was probing the NSE scam, had entrusted a Big-4 accounting firm Ernst & Young for forensic audit of the Chitra fraud.

24 Feb 2022

Dematerialised ‘Yogi’ materialises in ‘holy’ Seychelles

Who’s the mysterious Yogi, Siddha Purusha, Paramahamsa who ran the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India through emails to NSE head Chitra Ramakrishna?

24 Feb 2022

Budget 2022-23 – A huge turning point

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.

04 Feb 2022

Congrats Mr Tirumurti for defending an orphaned civilisation

You, the United Nations, cry about Islamophobia, Christianophobia, anti-Semiticism – all three Abrahamic religions.

24 Jan 2022

Will judicial delay help the Maran brothers escape?

The punishing, tiring 16-year long pursuit to jail the culprits, the Maran brothers of Sun TV fame, in the infamous telephone exchange fraud case exposed 10 years back, is still on.

12 Jan 2022

Covid-19: The villain, bats or bat lady

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.

30 Nov 2021

Is Supreme Court an ISIS accomplice, Mr Khurshid?

Hindutva depicts the way of life of Indian people, their state of mind and ethos.

30 Nov 2021

India 1989-2014 and after — a paradigm shift

"Why China, why not India?” is a question debated in India without a credible answer.

30 Nov 2021

Will US politics bury or expose truth?

Being a disciplined writer he did not touch the most sensitive subject the link between the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the PLA (Chinese military), which is now coming out.

28 May 2021

Covid: Missing facts, misdirected discourse

The current stentorian discourse sans facts, which shifts the blame on to the government for the supply chain failures of hospitals, misses a more critical fact.

28 Apr 2021

What can torpedo the budget and economy?

If India grows, it will contribute to global recovery. If not, huge investment it is making for growth will go down the drain and that will disappoint the world

06 Feb 2021

Difficulties well-handled. But….

The high infra and other spend in the budget, applauded by all, is precisely because Modi-2.0 did not go overboard in its stimulus spend like others did

05 Feb 2021

Gurumurthy column | Rajini's entry marks tectonic shift in Tamil Nadu politics

Rajinikanth’s announcement to enter the fray in the 2021 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections is an event that has the potential to transform Tamil Nadu’s political landscape.

04 Dec 2020