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		<title>Trading with Pakistan makes sense</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2012/03/30/trading-with-pakistan-makes-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two separate op-eds have been published by Sushant Singh (editor of Pragati) and Vikram Sood (former head of RAW) in the last month in the same paper, Mid Day, arguing basically the same thing. Namely, trading with Pakistan, a country that indeed still supports Islamist terrorists against India, does not make any &#8211; or at any rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What matters is debt service to GDP ratio, and its sustainability</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2012/03/14/what-matters-is-debt-service-to-gdp-ratio-and-its-sustainability/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2012/03/14/what-matters-is-debt-service-to-gdp-ratio-and-its-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Mint piece, the authors rightly say that the Central debt to GDP ratio (and to an even greater level the overall debt to GDP ratio) rose under the NDA and fell under the UPA. While the 2012 numbers (numbers towards the right end in the below chart will be proven far too sanguine within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hindutva: Some personal thoughts.</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2012/02/12/response-hindutva/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/?p=693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been receiving a lot of feedback on my article against Hindutva in last month&#8217;s Pragati. Not just through blogs and social media, but also through emails &#8211; positive and negative. So I am pasting here a somewhat haphazard, long and personal email reply I sent to a gentleman I respect a lot (edited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Red Toryism</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/on-red-toryism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My good online friend, Prasanna, had earlier sent me these essays by Phillip Blond. These were my first thoughts (edited from our email conversation) based on a quick read of the above essays: Free markets are not incompatible with a communitarian ethic. The actual source of hyper-individualization today is the left&#8217;s welfare state. Why have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s over-spending</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/indias-over-spending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest piece in Mint (by myself and Rajeev Mantri) India’s road to fiscal ruin The government’s bacchanalian populism has resulted in the destruction of public finances “My appetite is infinite and my greed is more.” These words were uttered not by a banker or CEO from the top 1% of the income [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s over-regulation</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/indias-over-regulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/?p=685</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second piece Rajeev and I penned for our new column in Mint Unshackling India’s domestic capital base The fact that the India story is simultaneously losing its sheen both at home and abroad compounds the need for worry &#8211; if foreign investors turn sour on the India story and India’s blue-chip companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s over-sized cabinet</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/indias-over-sized-cabinet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In September, Rajeev Mantri and I started a (as of now, fortnightly) column in Mint. Here was the first piece: Why does India have 77 Union ministers? India needs a leaner government with fewer ministries to dramatically curb corruption and make governance more efficient Food, steel, communications, aviation, agriculture, petroleum, renewable energy, shipping, chemicals, tourism, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dowry: Decriminalizing X != Supporting X</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/dowry-decriminalizing-x-supporting-x/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/11/07/dowry-decriminalizing-x-supporting-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having just been labeled a &#8220;pro-dowry activist&#8221; (ahem) by @Vidyut, I am forced to come out of my blogging shell. Here is her ostensible set of reasons why dowry should be criminalized. I had a brief twitter &#8220;conversation&#8221; with Vidyut yesterday in which she responded to my saying that dowry should not be prosecuted so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India needs reforms, not a revolution</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/08/26/india-needs-reforms-not-a-revolution/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/08/26/india-needs-reforms-not-a-revolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corruption and an unresponsive democracy push the middle class to a brink. The middle class of India, rapidly expanding and no longer as dependent on state jobs as earlier, has grown louder and angrier over the last few months at the corruption of the present Congress government &#8211; which has been in power for seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our colleges need democracy</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/08/our-colleges-need-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/08/our-colleges-need-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Wall Street Journal &#8211; India Journal, Yavnika Khanna and I penned a piece in support of more, not less, democracy in campuses across the country. Here are a few extracts: In the 2014 general election, there will be around 100 million new eligible voters. That is almost the equivalent of throwing the entire population [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan&#8217;s green Keynesianism</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/08/japans-green-keynesianism/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/08/japans-green-keynesianism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Tohoku earthquake and the Fukushima meltdown struck Japan earlier this year, the country&#8217;s economics and politics has been in turmoil. The Prime Minister Mr. Kan has been under a lot of pressure to resign, but he has asked for the passage of three bills as a &#8220;condition&#8221;: a ¥2 trillion ($25 billion) supplementary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Indian in Germany</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/06/an-indian-in-germany/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/06/an-indian-in-germany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is to write about my impressions of Germany, where I was for a two-week seminar recently (this genre being very much inspired by my co-blogger Dhruva&#8217;s insightful posts on &#8220;An Indian in Israel&#8221; and &#8220;An Indian in China&#8221; ) While Germany is certainly not as exotic to the Indian mind as Israel, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feminists&#8217; worst nightmare?</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/06/feminists-worst-nightmare/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/07/06/feminists-worst-nightmare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This very readable WSJ review of the book &#8220;Unnatural Selection&#8221; by Mara Hvistendhal &#8211; which documents the tragic reality of tens of millions of girls being aborted in countries like India and China over the last few decades &#8211; caught my eye for another reason, one that I had often thought about during my discussions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whither the Hindu right</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/06/17/whither-the-hindu-right/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/06/17/whither-the-hindu-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amit has a post partially in response to this post on Broadmind. Ashok Malik and Arvind Kumar have also weighed in. Amit says: There is no denying the fact that there is a concerted effort to define what constitutes the Right in India. The economic right which has assumed the intellectual mantle to define alternate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Pietro Ferrero Jr.</title>
		<link>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/04/19/rip-pietro-ferroro-jr/</link>
		<comments>http://swaraj.nationalinterest.in/2011/04/19/rip-pietro-ferroro-jr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Ferrero Jr., in an unfortunate incident, died yesterday at the age of 47. He was the third-generation of a great family business that brought us Nutella and Ferroro Rocher, amongst other chocolate products. The Ferroros have made a lot of people a little happier than what they they otherwise would have been. I am also [...]]]></description>
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