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Business News > Mint Authors > Srinath Raghavan

Srinath Raghavan

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ARTICLES BY SRINATH RAGHAVAN

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s now occupies a position in the China Communist Party’s pantheon next only to Mao Zedong. Photo: Reuters

Towards a less-restrained China

4 min read . 30 Oct 2017

A statue of Vladimir Lenin. Understanding the Bolsheviks as a sect is apparently the key to understanding the Russian Revolution. Photo: AFP

History’s verdict on the Russian Revolution

4 min read . 18 Sep 2017

The key ‘lesson’ of this episode is the urgent need for both India and Pakistan to work towards an understanding on mutual restraint. Photo: Reuters

Beware of the wrong lessons from Doklam

4 min read . 04 Sep 2017

Photo: Hindustan Times

How armed forces can aid defence manufacturing in India

4 min read . 21 Aug 2017

The Doklam standoff at the trijunction of India, China and Bhutan was triggered after Chinese troops attempted to construct a road in the region. Photo: AFP

China is wrong on Sikkim-Tibet boundary

4 min read . 07 Aug 2017

India should make it clear that Pakistani terrorism jeopardizes regional security—especially in the context of Chinese projects in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Photo: Reuters

Needed: A mutual restraint pact with China

4 min read . 10 Jul 2017

In a piece written after the elections in Uttar Pradesh earlier this year, Yogendra Yadav maintained that the BJP was the ‘hegemonic party in national politics’. Photo: PTI

Towards deciphering BJP’s hegemonic project

4 min read . 26 Jun 2017

The neoliberal order that supplanted Bretton Woods proved a yet stronger basis for American hegemony. Photo: AFP

The evolution of American hegemony

4 min read . 12 Jun 2017

A boy walks past damaged vehicles at the site of a suicide attack in eastern Khost province in Afghanistan. If the US exits Afghanistan without a settlement in place, the ensuing instability might boomerang on Pakistan. Photo: AP

There are no decent options in Afghanistan

4 min read . 29 May 2017

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina with PM Narendra Modi. The drive for regional integration can only come from India. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

South Asia’s missing intra-regional trade

4 min read . 01 May 2017

Subhas Chandra Bose.

Revisiting the 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny

4 min read . 03 Apr 2017

The attempt to regulate civil wars with legal norms has made states, especially the major powers, chary of labelling conflicts as civil wars. Photo: AFP

Decoding the idea of a civil war

4 min read . 20 Mar 2017

US President Donald Trump (right) with his new National Security Adviser US Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Donald Trump’s new NSA’s lessons from Vietnam War

4 min read . 06 Mar 2017

There has been a drop in the number of candidates with criminal records or cases filed against them in assembly elections with only 20% this year against 32% in 2012.

Mapping the crime-politics nexus in India

4 min read . 19 Feb 2017

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint.

India in 10 years: Relearning navigation in foreign waters

4 min read . 04 Feb 2017

Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

A crisis from which the US bailed out the RBI

4 min read . 22 Jan 2017

Akhilesh Yadav may not have Stalin’s experience, but he seems to score on ruthlessness. Photo: AFP

2017: A generational change in Indian politics

4 min read . 09 Jan 2017

Iraqi people flee the Islamic State stronghold in the town of Bartella, east of Mosul. Charles Maier’s ‘Once Within Borders’ is a splendid account of the changing notions of territory over the past five centuries. Photo: Reuters

Four books that can help make sense of 2016

4 min read . 26 Dec 2016

Demonetisation has also left in tatters the independence and credibility of the Reserve Bank of India, or RBI. Photo: Hemant Mishra/Mint

Back to the worst forms of central planning

4 min read . 12 Dec 2016

India has two advantages: the changing character of warfare and its software ecosystem. Photo: Bloomberg

Of warfare, tech and innovation

4 min read . 18 Nov 2016