Shekhar Gupta
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Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta is a senior journalist and author. He is the founder and current editor-in-chief of ThePrint. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009. He writes a weekly column for the Business Standard, which appears every Saturday. He has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today.
Shekhar Gupta is a senior journalist and author. He is the founder and current editor-in-chief of ThePrint. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009. He writes a weekly column for the Business Standard, which appears every Saturday. He has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today.
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The TRP trap: Media seems to have hit the self-destruct button
A weakened media at war with itself is an ideal situation for the establishment to step in
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Suspect all, fix all: A mindset that begins at the top, trickles across
It's not just Modi government or BJP, but even state governments, judiciary are getting caught in a 'we suspect all' mindset. Is India becoming a National Suspicion State?
India needs to forget divisive politics for a while; onus only on Modi govt
India is facing intense, multiple, intertwined crises and needs political space and confidence. It is up to Modi and his govt to create them
 "India needs to forget divisive politics for a while; onus only on Modi govt")
Shekhar Gupta: America first
It doesn't matter that Kamala Harris is half-Indian. What Indian economy looks like next January will influence her view on India, not her genetics
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Shekhar Gupta: Shrine for secularism
Indian secularism didn't die with the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan. It is enshrined in the basic structure of our Constitution and is still worth fighting for and preserving
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A dirty industry: Bollywood a brutally competitive game with no umpires
Any outsider would find it impregnable and suffer many heartbreaks as even one as successful as Sushant probably did
Shekhar Gupta: Strategic wake-up call
Modi govt's strategic policy-making remains a prisoner of historic obsessions and BJP's electoral politics. Ladakh shows it needs hard introspection, realism, and course correction
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Shekhar Gupta: Fantasy called expansionism
India, China, and Pakistan all want territory from another. But it's a pursuit doomed to fail as they can't get it without annihilating the other
Shekhar Gupta: Art of threatening war
What if the Chinese military build-up is just coercive diplomacy? India shouldn't blink but believe the threat of war is real and be prepared
Vande Bharat vs Bharat ke Bande: Is Modi losing his political touch?
PM Modi's pandemic messaging has been mostly directed at the middle class and elites and there's little empathy for the poor millions. Is he losing his political touch?
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Shekhar Gupta: Journalism in the time of corona
Covid-19 is the biggest story of our lives and people expect us to be around, watching, reporting, editing, recording this for posterity and blowing the whistle to draw attention to injustices
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Shekhar Gupta: Socialism of the elites
Scindia's 'non-AC' Range Rover shows how a unique brand of hypocritical - and self-destructive - socio-populism is our national ideology. Reason why Hindu Rate of Growth is India's destiny
Govt performance shows strong leadership no guarantee for good economics
The data and the feel after six years under PM Modi prove a strong leader doesn't necessarily give us decisive economic leadership unmindful of immediate political risks
Why we must reflect on the root cause of the Delhi riots now
Delhi riots are an urgent reminder to reflect on the root cause of the CAA-NRC poison toxifying India. Unfortunately, it comes from a malevolent creeper bush planted by the Supreme Court
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Shekhar Gupta: The India-US nuclear deal of 2008 gave us six major gains
Why the India-US nuclear deal is the biggest achievement of the turnaround between the two countries. It also helped India's political economy by exposing and demolishing the Left
Shekhar Gupta: The craft of war
India can defeat Pakistan in less than a week. But first it should define victory, know when to declare it, have decisive conventional edge and stop flying MiG-21s
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Shekhar Gupta: India, we have a problem
Brand India - and Brand Modi - has been damaged by a combination of identity politics and economic decline. But the world isn't writing India off, not yet
Shekhar Gupta: Return of the Bharatiya 'Baniya' Party
BJP under Modi-Shah is returning to its trader mindset with a vengeance, underlining that strong, full majority governments can also be more risk-averse
Modi govt is fighting with voters who backed him with passion: youth
Six months after returning to power with a huge mandate, Modi government is stuck fighting students - its most ardent voters who are now pessimistic, hopeless and even angry
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Shekhar Gupta: Start-up of the decade
AAP has managed to break through entry barriers for newcomers in our politics - caste, ethnicity, ideology, dynasty - to establish itself as a Delhi party with all-India recognition