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Mihir Sharma

Mint Correspondent

ARTICLES BY MIHIR SHARMA

India’s $5.5 billion bill for Russia’s S-400 missile platform counts as a bargain (Photo: Reuters)

Indigenous weapons will have to wean India off Russian arms

4 min read . 22 May 2022

Rajapaksa’s policy decisions have cost the country economically. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Sri Lanka’s crisis and the folly of going by obscure theories

3 min read . 18 Apr 2022

Indian regulators have just approved two shots—both, as it happens, developed largely in the US—which might turn out to be a safer bet than mRNA for much of the world. (AP)

Look beyond mRNA vaccines to maximize global coverage

3 min read . 12 Jan 2022

Our population is set to peak and start declining sooner than we had expectedht

India seems likely to grow old before it can become wealthy

3 min read . 16 Dec 2021

NSO’s Pegasus is like a dangerous weapon for the menace it can pose afp

The snoopgate scandal should serve America a wake-up call

3 min read . 21 Jul 2021

Bureaucrats picking business winners has been tried and rejected (Photo: Mint)

India’s new industrial policy is a replay of socialist-era follies

3 min read . 19 Jul 2021

Neglect of public healthcare spending has left India struggling against covidreuters

India suffers from a problem of inadequate state capacity

4 min read . 03 May 2021

Prime Minister Modi’s government has given up its earlier fiscal policy

The reason that India cannot afford to go on a debt binge

3 min read . 04 Feb 2021

Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. (AP)

Is Pakistan opening the door to Islamists?

4 min read . 12 Oct 2020

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample to test for COVID-19 (Photo: AP)

Costs of India’s covid crisis are too high

4 min read . 06 Sep 2020

Nothing is more likely to test this consensus than hints of profiteering off the war against Covid-19.

Big Pharma shouldn’t be too greedy

3 min read . 03 Aug 2020

A healthcare worker collects plasma of COVID-19 recovered patients during a plasma donation camp at Dharavi in Mumbai. (ANI)

Why big nations have been brought low by the Covid pandemic

3 min read . 31 Jul 2020

The new indirect tax regime is misfiring. Evasion of a nationwide GST may be up and compliance down. That’s the exact opposite of what the tax reform was supposed to accomplish (Photo: Mint)

Opinion | Another RBI rate cut may not help India

3 min read . 03 Oct 2019

Opinion | We need a Green Marshall Plan, not a Green New Deal

3 min read . 17 Mar 2019

PM Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump. Both India and US need to think harder about what they want to get out of each other. (Reuters)

Opinion | US trade snub should be a wake-up call for India

4 min read . 06 Mar 2019

India has the potential to be a giant market, which US companies might need if they’re slowly squeezed out of China

Opinion | India should call truce in US trade conflict

3 min read . 14 Feb 2019

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim will resign effective February 1, more than three years ahead of his term’s expiration. Photo: Bloomberg

Opinion | Is it time to give up on the World Bank?

4 min read . 08 Jan 2019

RBI governor Urjit Patel. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint

Opinion | Can RBI, other central banks survive the age of populism?

4 min read . 03 Nov 2018

Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

India launches billion dollar cell phone shakedown

3 min read . 13 Jul 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s main goal for the Wuhan summit is to get China to stop kicking sand in India’s face. Photo: PTI

Opinion: Asia’s balance of power has become fairly lopsided

3 min read . 27 Apr 2018

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