Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar

Consulting Editor, ET

Consulting Editor at ET

Consulting Editor at ET

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• Will we K-Pop (desi remix)? How India can turn Tata, Adani, Reliance into global titans

  
  03 Jun 2026 12:16 AM IST
• India’s solar crisis has been failure of planning, coordination and infrastructure: Swaminathan Aiyar

  
  27 May 2026 11:06 PM IST
• From Bengal to Assam, Hindutva rewrites the east: BJP's landslide ends era of regional strongmen

  
  05 May 2026 11:39 PM IST
• Why Mamata Banerjee will win West Bengal: Swaminathan Aiyar

  
  03 May 2026 11:48 PM IST
• Constitution over tradition: Why ‘essential practices’ must not override individual rights

  
  07 Apr 2026 11:46 PM IST
• Can cricket industrialise Kashmir?

  
  10 Mar 2026 11:06 PM IST
• Is India's negative FDI a red flag or a sign of booming capitalism?

  
  24 Feb 2026 11:18 PM IST
• India-US tariff deal is a 'humiliating' cave-in: Swaminathan Aiyar

  
  10 Feb 2026 11:28 PM IST
• India’s economy running a marathon & challenges sprinting too: Swaminathan Aiyar

  
  30 Jan 2026 06:40 AM IST
• The unelected guardians of Indian democracy

  
  27 Jan 2026 11:03 PM IST
• Trumpism won’t triumph: Even if a sharp US slowdown is likely, India should fare well in 2026

  
  30 Dec 2025 10:53 PM IST
• USA, it's down down: From global policeman to transactional bully, America's breeding chaos - affecting India, too

  
  16 Dec 2025 11:02 PM IST
• India's Q2 FY26 GDP soars 8.2%: A structural shift reshaping the economy like ’83 cricket triumph

  
  03 Dec 2025 10:53 PM IST
• Shielding banks with the antiquated 'statutory liquidity ratio' only breeds complacency, abolish it

  
  18 Nov 2025 11:06 PM IST
• Why I am an Opt'AI'mist: Human ingenuity has a fine track record, it should keep rogue tech in check

  
  21 Oct 2025 11:35 PM IST
• ₹upee, a ₹eality check

  
  07 Oct 2025 11:18 PM IST
• Is this a sign of our times? Trump's signature controversy takes over US politics

  
  09 Sep 2025 10:38 PM IST
• GDP measurements: Undercounting services & quality in favour of goods & quantity needs a fix

  
  26 Aug 2025 11:09 PM IST
• Go on, give the Don a bone: Why India must nominate Trump for Nobel, and be tough on issues that matter

  
  12 Aug 2025 11:13 PM IST
• With US in decline, voters who usually avoid extremes are now okay with it

  
  01 Jul 2025 11:30 PM IST
• America as a retreating empire is making way for a conflict-ridden world, as well as a weakening America

  
  17 Jun 2025 11:43 PM IST
• India may still cross the ‘miracle economy’ benchmark of 7% GDP growth

  
  04 Jun 2025 12:19 AM IST
• Wake up and smell the communalism — in case you thought it had gone cold

  
  20 May 2025 10:49 PM IST
• Been there, hyped that: Markets reading jaw-jaw for war-war as political theatre may be right

  
  06 May 2025 11:19 PM IST
• As Trump’s 90-day tariff deadline approaches, fear will again overtake greed

  
  23 Apr 2025 12:02 AM IST
• Tariff trouble: Is Trump’s economic strategy a recipe for disaster?

  
  09 Apr 2025 12:07 AM IST
• There ain't no Golden Age-Just Trump, turmoil, and financial freefall

  
  25 Mar 2025 10:34 PM IST
• It's no longer an N-word: With US removing security guarantees, everybody will want to get nuked up

  
  11 Mar 2025 11:03 PM IST
• Donald Trump's bite is worse than his bark

  
  04 Mar 2025 10:46 PM IST
• View: Why India should be more open and thank Trump for forcing tariff cuts

  
  25 Feb 2025 10:54 PM IST
• Babu-jis dheere chalna, bring in AI for ease of doing business

  
  11 Feb 2025 11:15 PM IST
• Is China the new USSR? Tepid growth, trade barriers may derail China’s plans to rule the 21st century

  
  03 Feb 2025 10:36 PM IST
• Decoding the Budget: Two Cheers, the third depends on Trump effect

  
  02 Feb 2025 05:30 AM IST
• Economic Survey: Fundamentals strong, time to ace China+1 play, says Swaminathan S Aiyar

  
  01 Feb 2025 06:00 AM IST
• In Trump 2.0, it's America first, world last

  
  22 Jan 2025 05:30 AM IST
• India should resist Western pressure on net zero and decarbonise at its pace

  
  16 Jan 2025 11:19 PM IST
• Island nations, not much at sea: Climate compensation demand by Melanesian countries doesn’t quite add up

  
  18 Dec 2024 11:29 PM IST
• View: Why can't India sustain 8% GDP growth? The answer lies in politics

  
  03 Dec 2024 10:53 PM IST
• Creating jobs in manufacturing in the US and India is a study in contrast

  
  19 Nov 2024 10:56 PM IST
• Are brain chips the path to human evolution or a step toward control?

  
  08 Nov 2024 11:22 PM IST
• It’s wise to avoid grand ideologies when trying to make a country rich

  
  22 Oct 2024 11:46 PM IST
• Getting into a porting spirit: India’s port revolution has been remarkable, but it’s well behind China

  
  24 Sep 2024 10:40 PM IST
• Old stirrings in Punjab: The battle against separatism cannot be fought on foreign soil

  
  16 Sep 2024 11:03 PM IST
• AI will, in due course, destroy jobs, but it will also create new ones

  
  28 Aug 2024 11:09 PM IST
• Commodity prices a clue

  
  13 Aug 2024 11:23 PM IST
• The rise and fall of Bangladesh’s economy, and the lessons in it

  
  5 mins read13 Aug 2024
• Arrey brother, why bother? The economy’s doing too well to make attempting radical change worthwhile

  
  31 Jul 2024 10:55 PM IST
• Same same, but different: Budget 2024 is a 'government bachao' and prudent balancing act

  
  24 Jul 2024 06:01 AM IST