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Biden Could Learn One Thing From Modi

India’s general elections, which will be spread over multiple weeks, kick off on Friday with voting in 102 of the country’s 543 constituencies....

19.04.2024 6

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Mihir Sharma

Modi’s Campaign Gets a Big Boost From Western Praise

To outsiders, it may seem unclear what the world’s largest election, which India will hold in stages starting at the end of this week, is all about....

15.04.2024 5

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Mihir Sharma

India Needs More Leaders Like Manmohan Singh

Almost 10 years after he gave way to Narendra Modi as prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh retired last week from public life. During his long...

09.04.2024 5

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Mihir Sharma

India’s Takeoff Has to Start on the Factory Floor

India’s election campaign has officially begun. Few expect Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be unseated by the time it concludes. Yet, objectively,...

04.04.2024 40

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Mihir Sharma

Pakistan Needs to Get India to Yes on Trade

Pakistani Finance Minister Ishaq Dar raised more than a few eyebrows last week when he said — almost as an aside — that his country’s new...

29.03.2024 3

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Mihir Sharma

Modi’s Big Bet on Musk in India Might Just Work

Elon Musk’s long courtship of Indian officialdom may have finally paid off. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted him to open one of his Tesla...

25.03.2024 10

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Mihir Sharma

What Modi Has Figured Out That Trump Never Has

Excitement and uncertainty used to accompany general elections in India. Polls swung back and forth, coalitions formed and reformed, analysts...

18.03.2024 10

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Mihir Sharma

India Has Made It to the Launchpad. It Still Needs a Spark

As India prepares for elections this spring, confidence about the country’s prospects seems ubiquitous. The country has just finalized a new trade...

15.03.2024 5

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Mihir Sharma

India’s AI Regulators Need Scalpels, Not Hammers

Indians are among the most innovative people in the world — until their government gets involved. The libertarian commentator Gurcharan Das argued...

07.03.2024 6

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Mihir Sharma

India’s ‘No’ at WTO May Just Mean ‘Not Yet’

As trade ministers gather at the World Trade Organization summit in Abu Dhabi this week, one of the villains will, as usual, be India. And, certainly,...

26.02.2024 6

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Mihir Sharma

The Facebook I Knew Should Not Have Left Harvard

When this week Meta Platforms Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a photograph of his Facebook page from 20 years ago — back when it was...

09.02.2024 8

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Mihir Sharma

Modi’s Thriftiness May End Up Shortchanging India

A few months from now, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face India’s electorate and ask them to grant him a third term. In 2019, when he increased...

01.02.2024 4

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Mihir Sharma

Iran's Proxies Aren't Just a Problem for Its Enemies

At one level, Iran’s support for Yemen’s Houthi rebels could pass for magnificent statecraft. By supporting the militants’ attacks against Red...

29.01.2024 3

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Mihir Sharma

Faith and State Are a Powerful Mix for India’s Modi

In India, the third week of January has always been a time for nationalist pageantry. It features two national holidays: the birthday of the Bengali...

22.01.2024 3

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Mihir Sharma

The Frenemies Who Could Challenge the West’s Sanctions Regime

The BRICS grouping has long been distinguished by a consistent failure to live up to potential. The internal contradictions are crippling: Divergent...

08.01.2024 6

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Mihir Sharma

Modi’s Sledgehammer Politics Are Battering Indian Democracy

When India goes to the polls in early 2024, it is hard to imagine voters kicking Prime Minister Narendra Modi out of power. In fact, Modi is probably...

22.12.2023 9

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Mihir Sharma

New Bank Rules Are Bad for the West, Worse for the Rest

Wall Street’s most powerful bankers told the Senate Banking Committee last week that proposed new rules known as the “Basel III endgame” would...

14.12.2023 5

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Mihir Sharma

Modi’s Greatest Strength Is His Foes’ Weakness

The results from four state elections in India announced last weekend might appear dispiriting for India’s opposition: Prime Minister Narendra...

05.12.2023 10

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Mihir Sharma

Modi Shouldn’t Chase Musk to Make in India

Elon Musk may be close to winning a long-running battle of wills with the Indian government. Policy makers in New Delhi have been hoping to entice...

03.12.2023 2

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Mihir Sharma

India’s Denials on Sikh Separatist Plots Are Sounding Hollow

Two months ago, relations between India and Canada deteriorated swiftly when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that prosecutors possessed “credible...

27.11.2023 2

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Mihir Sharma

India Is Making Too Many Disasters in the Himalayas

It has been more than a week since 41 Indian construction workers were trapped inside a tunnel they were building in the Himalayan mountain ranges...

24.11.2023 10

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Mihir Sharma

US Trade Flop Leaves Asia on Its Own

For countries in the Indo-Pacific wondering whether it would ever be possible to decouple their economies from China’s, last week was quite...

20.11.2023 7

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Mihir Sharma

India and the UK Are Acting Like Cowards on Trade

Two Aprils ago, the UK’s prime minister promised he would deliver a free-trade agreement with India “by Diwali.” That prime minister, Boris...

14.11.2023 2

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Mihir Sharma

Seeing Climate Injustice Is Easy. Fixing It Is Hard

At their heart, climate negotiations are about one thing: Who pays? Usually, the fight is over who will pay to save the world — by financing...

13.11.2023 2

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Mihir Sharma

A 70-Hour Workweek Won’t Help India Grow

Do Indians not work enough? According to one of the co-founders of the Indian software giant Infosys Ltd., we don’t. The billionaire Narayana Murthy...

03.11.2023 6

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Mihir Sharma

India Is Pushing the World Toward Another Rice Crisis

This has been a bad year for food prices in the world’s poorest countries. Whether their citizens eat wheat or rice, three calamities have caused...

30.10.2023 5

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Mihir Sharma

India Can’t Just Float Above the Fray in the Middle East

Rising powers such as India have boasted of forging a new, “multipolar” order that transcends 20th century rivalries. The expanding chaos in the...

19.10.2023 2

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Mihir Sharma

India Needs to Stop the Bleeding From Canada Killing

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19.09.2023 9

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Mihir Sharma

China’s Green Subsidies Are Good for Europe

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19.09.2023 2

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This Silk Road May Actually Lead Somewhere

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14.09.2023 3

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