<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Narain Batra"><item><title>KASHMIR: EARTHLY HEAVEN, A TURBULENT HISTORY</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/kashmir-earthly-heaven-a-turbulent-history/</link><pubDate>April 29, 2022, 4:19 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/b9595d65_8709_P_2_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>India’s then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declared, ‘wherever there is a dispute in regard to any territory, the matter should be decided by a referendum or plebiscite of the people concerned. We shall accept the result of this referendum, what...</excerpt></item><item><title>Pursuit of impossible possibilities fuels the American dream</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/pursuit-of-impossible-possibilities-fuels-the-american-dream/</link><pubDate>August 12, 2021, 11:40 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Webp.net-resizeimage-2-2.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Since Edward Gibbon’s monumental classic, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, historians have been saying that the decline and fall of a civilisation is inevitable and America will not escape its destiny. But it happens only i...</excerpt></item><item><title>Hardball diplomacy needs hard power</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/hardball-diplomacy-needs-hard-power/</link><pubDate>July 29, 2021, 7:23 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Indian-economy-300x169.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>To defend the Indian Ocean and the Himalayas, and to play a prominent role in the Indo-Pacific and have a seat on the global table, India has no alternative but to achieve sophisticated high-level economic growth through its manufacturing and tech...</excerpt></item><item><title>A journalist’s road has become more perilous than ever before</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/a-journalists-road-has-become-more-perilous-than-ever-before/</link><pubDate>July 7, 2021, 7:30 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/196df470_3340_P_6_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>When China and other autocratic countries are trying to control the global narratives by spreading misinformation, journalists need to provide fearless in-depth reporting whether it is about the Xinjiang internment camps, Wuhan lab virus escape, R...</excerpt></item><item><title>DEFENDING CYBERSPACES IS AKIN TO DEFENDING OUR SOVEREIGNTY</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/defending-cyberspaces-is-akin-to-defending-our-sovereignty/</link><pubDate>June 9, 2021, 2:46 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bc13aa0a_2988_P_5_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>Last October a cyber-attack shut down the electrical grid of Mumbai, India’s financial capital, plunging millions into darkness. The New York Times suggested that it was a Chinese cyber-attack aimed at giving the message that China could not only ...</excerpt></item><item><title>India turns towards marketplace capitalism for rapid growth</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/india-turns-towards-marketplace-capitalism-for-rapid-growth/</link><pubDate>March 11, 2021, 3:02 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/48846c4b_1923_P_5_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>If the ultimate goal of the Modi government is to enable the rise of a manufacturing and muscular India, then a new form of cooperative partnership between the Centre, states and the private sector is necessary.
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