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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Shekhar Gupta: Return of the angels
Aims of social justice and purge of Brahminism achieved, Dravidian politics has dumped atheism as freebies are the new god
 "Shekhar Gupta: Return of the angels")
Shekhar Gupta: Guns, thieves & ghosts
We get tangled up in our own crooked web on purchases, and the murky arms bazaar knows it
Shekhar Gupta: Writings on the Bengal wall
Reading the realigning colours of political India
We need a broad alliance to stop the poisonous thinking of the BJP: Nitish Kumar
Interview with chief minister, Bihar
 "We need a broad alliance to stop the poisonous thinking of the BJP: Nitish Kumar")
Shekhar Gupta: Whispers in Despatches
In old power capitals, gossip and rumour are more convincing than fact. Durbari Delhi is no different
Shekhar Gupta: Assam's 35-year saffronisation
RSS changed Assam's political fault line from anti-outsider to anti-migrant to anti-Muslim infiltrator, and simply borrowed leadership from other parties
Shekhar Gupta: Budget 2016 shows Modi is a reformer in retreat
The loss in Bihar has forced a change in NDA's market positioning
Shekhar Gupta: When proxy comes to shove
The attack is on Arun Jaitley, but the target is Narendra Modi - so watch next four weeks to see how the PM responds
Shekhar Gupta: I, me, myself, to the power of three
The political price of Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal referring to themselves in the third person
Shekhar Gupta: Rajbala Vs State of Haryana = No more Pakori Lals
Why I disagree with Supreme Court's clearance of a Haryana law stipulating literacy, solvency and hygiene qualifications to contest panchayat elections
Shekhar Gupta: Democracy by Danda
That's how our politics is with no inner-party democracy. That's why we should listen to Hilary Benn speech
Shekhar Gupta: Don't smile too much, Congress
The post-Bihar "revival" of the Congress is limited to the front pages - the party's secular decline has not been reversed
 "Shekhar Gupta: Don't smile too much, Congress")
Shekhar Gupta: Narendra Modi - candidate to PM
Why the prime minister's legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as personality contests
Shekhar Gupta: Pulping the Modi script on Muslims
How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement
Shekhar Gupta: A heartland-rending tussle
Why and how the BJP and the Congress respond to the faith-versus-caste debate will still shape politics
Shekhar Gupta: A Nagpur manifesto
Why the reality of the new RSS-BJP arrangement should be accepted but questioned on its view on diversity
Shekhar Gupta: Behind the closet
Rising prosperity has not changed attitudes, it has merely enabled us to exploit cheap labour as 'domestics'
Shekhar Gupta: The canary and the deep state
Why Khurshid Kasuri may have his story-telling right but politics wrong
Shekhar Gupta: Mainstreaming the Lynch-Fringe
Dadri killing is a chilling turning point in our politics, as no one condemns the mob outright
Shekhar Gupta: An unusual traveller
Even New York cabbies take note as Modi drops by. Can he use foreign visits to craft a larger agenda?