Shekhar Gupta
 "Shekhar Gupta")
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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From Rajpath to Kartavya Path: Modi's predictable path
His emphasis on kartavya or duties throws the ball in the citizen's court and is central to his political proposition. This is something he has been writing and saying since he took power
 "From Rajpath to Kartavya Path: Modi's predictable path")
Questions on a Make-in-India carrier
The new INS Vikrant is reason to celebrate. But it also raises tough questions for India's military and political leaderships
 "Questions on a Make-in-India carrier")
Congress's biggest liability is its glorious past
After the 2004 victory, Congress allowed its hangers-on and its own fake Socialist nostalgia to override the most important political argument for the day and years to come
Guilty without guilt in IAS
H C Gupta's case tells us how the 'system' works to punish the non-corrupt. And if this is how it's going to be, who would risk taking a decision?
Tiranga vs Tiranga
India's most audacious new party has joined the battle with Modi, freebies and nationalism. The latter is more visible. So they will match it, Tiranga for Tiranga, slogan for slogan, tweet for tweet
That Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our minds is a big, positive change
Three years since the changes in Article 370, some things have improved, while some have gotten worse
Sack of the Hindu caravan
Not just Congress but all 'secular' parties like SP, RJD and BSP, which are frustrated with current arrangement under the Modi-Shah BJP, need to answer one question: How did you lose your Hindu vote?
India's Muslim correction
Indian Muslims are alienated, othered, angry, and nearly disenfranchised. Their vote no longer counts and that makes us a very imperfect democracy.
Blasphemy, offence and defence
Can we complain about Mohammed Zubair of Alt News? The answer isn't a simple yes or no. It is no, no and yes
Three questions on Maharashtra
One brilliant move might enable you to snatch away power from the strongest. But it takes eternal vigilance-and smarts-to keep it. This is where the Thackerays proved to be a disaster
Agnipath, fire and misfire
Modi govt's biggest flaw has been its disinclination to accept limitations of electoral majorities. This ruined land acquisition and farm reform, and stalled labour codes
 "Agnipath, fire and misfire")
The great damager
Dictator Musharraf badly damaged Pakistan: Assassination of Benazir, 26/11 attacks in India and the US Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama in Abbottabad. But he believed he was a democrat
 "The great damager")
Kashmir, past continuous
Modi government's Kashmir policy has been a success in changing the status of the state and redefining what remains negotiable
It's India's time, again
The global order is up in the air and India is being wooed by all. It opens up possibilities unimaginable until recently on economic, strategic and military issues
 "It's India's time, again")
Mandir, masjid, truth, reconciliation
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can't be changed, but we can't deny the wrongs of the past, either, before we consider reconciliation
A car called Congress
The only way forward for Congress is to create something new. Not in the image of the glorious past like the Ambassador, but a brand new product looking at the future
 "A car called Congress")
As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to be worried
BJP's one main old rival is declining across the country, and it's being replaced by new noisier, sharper, more populist and ruthless challengers
 "As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to be worried")
Mutually assured detention
Non-BJP chief ministers are retaliating. If Centre can use its agencies to threaten, intimidate and jail its rivals, so can they. Fightback has become an established pattern and will get more intense
Secular Islamophobia
BJP's political bulldozer has crushed the political skills and imagination of its rivals into rubble. It's made them Islamophobic in that they'd rather not identify with Muslims in any visible way
'Vishwaguru' in the mirror
India of BJP-RSS so covets rights to sermonise to the world. But does our present conform to brilliant past? Can we aspire for that moral stature if we respond to criticism with prickly whataboutery?