<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="PRIYADARSHI DUTTA"><item><title>China’s ‘capitalism’ weighs heavy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/chinas-capitalism-weighs-heavy-2/</link><pubDate>July 12, 2022, 6:11 pm</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ind.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>India’s import basket from China is heavily laden with capital goods. This segment, unlike consumer durables, does not render itself to an easy boycott. Any rash decision, in absence of substitutes, might end up harming production capacity. </excerpt></item><item><title>A battle to save democracy?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/a-battle-to-save-democracy/</link><pubDate>September 19, 2020, 8:09 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Democracy.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The famous Inchon landing by US marines 70 years ago this week marked the United States joining the ‘battle for democracy’ in Korean peninsula. Even as North Korea remains firmly Communist, democracy had no easy victory in the South, where the US’...</excerpt></item><item><title>For China, map is not the  territory</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/for-china-map-is-not-the-territory/</link><pubDate>September 3, 2020, 6:27 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/china.png</image><category>India</category><excerpt>Beijing has always valued actual control on ground more than legal and historical credentials of its frontiers. As a result of its militarised attitude, the India-China border could neither be delineated nor demarcated over the last 70 years.</excerpt></item><item><title>What led to the eclipse of Sanskrit?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/chinas-capitalism-weighs-heavy-2/</link><pubDate>July 12, 2022, 6:11 pm</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ind-300x169.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The Sanskrit Week (2-8 August) is being celebrated, though mostly online, this year. Circa 1290 AD (Saka 1212), a teenaged mystic from Maharashtra accomplished a path-breaking work. Jnanadeva (1275-1296 AD) composed Jnaneswari, an exposition of th...</excerpt></item><item><title>How Nehru gave Tibet on a platter to Mao</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/chinas-capitalism-weighs-heavy-2/</link><pubDate>July 12, 2022, 6:11 pm</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ind-300x169.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>On 31 October, 1950 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel celebrated in last birthday. His mind, however, was occupied with reports of China’s annexation of Tibet as published in that day’s newspaper. Being India’s Deputy Prime Minister, and Home Minister, he ...</excerpt></item><item><title>The man who triggered Hindu resurgence in West Bengal</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/the-man-who-triggered-hindu-resurgence-in-west-bengal/</link><pubDate>July 14, 2020, 5:27 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Tapan-Ghosh.png</image><category>India</category><excerpt>Tapan Ghosh’s fame shot up in 2008 when he founded ‘Hindu Samhati’ to fight Islamist aggression in West Bengal, thereby changing the dynamics in India’s most ‘secularised’ state.</excerpt></item><item><title>Great Wall against democracy must go</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/great-wall-against-democracy-must-go/</link><pubDate>July 9, 2020, 6:06 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/china-300x169.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>One-party rule has become anachronistic. China no longer has a justification to firewall democracy, 70 years after the People’s Republic was founded. </excerpt></item><item><title>China’s ‘capitalism’ weighs heavy</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/chinas-capitalism-weighs-heavy/</link><pubDate>June 29, 2020, 5:50 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ind-300x169.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>India’s import basket from China is heavily laden with capital goods. This segment, unlike consumer durables, does not render itself to an easy boycott. Any rash decision, in absence of substitutes, might end up harming production capacity. </excerpt></item><item><title>The post-colonial problem of elephantine proportions</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-post-colonial-problem-of-elephantine-proportions/</link><pubDate>June 17, 2020, 4:46 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/elephant-300x169.png</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The latter half of the 20th century exerted great pressure on the natural habitat of Asian jumbos. Both elephants and human beings have fallen victims in the crisis that ensued.</excerpt></item><item><title>Do we need a new Parliament complex?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/do-we-need-a-new-parliament-complex/</link><pubDate>June 3, 2020, 2:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Parliament-300x169.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>It would be best not to commission a new and larger Parliament building without anticipating the consequences of a drastically enlarged membership on the functioning of the Houses.</excerpt></item></author></feed>