Shekhar Gupta

Do minorities matter?

Hamid Ansari's concern over unease among Indian minorities came just after Pakistan swore in its first Hindu cabinet minister in 20 years. Truth is contrary to this clickbait.

7y ago

CV and stature

Whether Ram Nath Kovind has the credentials to be India's 14th Rashtrapati or not is now a non-question.

7y ago

HINDUTVA TO HINDUTVA-PLUS

If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.

7y ago

Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity

The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.

7y ago

Desperation and aspiration in UP's east

Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.

7y ago

Burdened with Indiranomics

The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.

7y ago

Mammaries of the socialist raj

The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.

7y ago

Soft power, hard battles

The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?

8y ago
August 17, 2017
August 17, 2017

Do minorities matter?

Hamid Ansari's concern over unease among Indian minorities came just after Pakistan swore in its first Hindu cabinet minister in 20 years. Truth is contrary to this clickbait.

June 25, 2017
June 25, 2017

CV and stature

Whether Ram Nath Kovind has the credentials to be India's 14th Rashtrapati or not is now a non-question.

March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017

HINDUTVA TO HINDUTVA-PLUS

If political history could be divided into epochs, Indira Gandhi's began in 1969, when she split the Congress, and ended in 1989, when Rajiv Gandhi lost power.

March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017

Maximum Modi, maximum opportunity

The description “tectonic shift” was first used for election results by Union Cabinet minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. It has since gathered currency among pundits and partisans.

March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017

Desperation and aspiration in UP's east

Badlands is one of those familiar Americanisms, like ballpark, Wild West and gentrification that feature in our usage more as malapropisms.

December 19, 2016
December 19, 2016

Burdened with Indiranomics

The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.

December 3, 2016
December 3, 2016

Mammaries of the socialist raj

The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.

October 25, 2016
October 25, 2016

Soft power, hard battles

The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?

October 18, 2016
October 18, 2016

Kitney Pakistani thhey?

You can frame this question as when did Indian journalism self-destruct, when did it begin its self destruction, or, is it on its way to self-destruction?