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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

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

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

Shekhar Gupta: Back to the inglorious past

History is repeating itself and there is a back-to-1974 feeling. But India is living in totally different circumstances for Modi to emulate Indira Gandhi all the way

Shekhar Gupta: Indian, nationalist and Muslim

A new Indian Muslim is rising. They're dressed like Muslims but are also flaunting their patriotism, nationalism, love for tricolour, national anthem and Constitution

Shekhar Gupta: Pakistan gets a Modi Yorker

Until now, it was Pakistan that always set the pace on Kashmir. Modi has turned the tables by scrapping Article 370 and Pakistan is struggling for a response

Shekhar Gupta: Facts, fiction and reality in J&K

Modi has broken the post-Simla status quo on Kashmir. The new reality has to be accepted to move on from its complex and complicated past

India isn't made of porcelain: Ignore fears of subversion in Kartarpur

India isn't made of porcelain. Kartarpur Sahib is open. It's our moment of joy. Switch off that TV neurosis on the 'return of Khalistan'. It isn't happening

Shekhar Gupta: Flag-bearers of hyper-nationalism

India is now far too strong for anyone to push it around. That should've made us more secure, not get caught in old fears and insecurities

Kashmir: Internal yet internationalised

The world now accepts the Aug 5 changes as India's internal affair, and yet Kashmir is now internationalised

Shekhar Gupta: It's Modi vs economy

The struggling economy is Narendra Modi's biggest challenge. He could defy it and continue to rise spectacularly, or fix it miraculously and do even better

Lynching becomes heart attack, victim pays not rapist in police-neta raj

The police-politician nexus isn't new. But it has worsened dramatically and IPS has now lost its moral and professional centre of gravity

Shekhar Gupta: India's most potent weapon loses power

A red-hot economy was India's greatest strategic strength. It's diminishing and damaging India's stature, as reflected in responses to Kashmir crisis

Shekhar Gupta: Our do unto others politics

Indian politics is caught in a vicious cycle of vendettas. BJP has taken it to a new level by weaponising CBI, ED, I-T, TV channels and social media

The Right has its myths about Kashmir and it is time we busted them

The 5 dangerous Right nationalist myths on J&K that need to be demolished to win the battle for the hearts and minds of Kashmiris

Yediyurappa is everything an ideal Modi-Shah chief minister isn't

Yediyurappa has provided the first challenge to the unfettered, unquestioned authority of Modi & Shah. BJP leaders in other states could take inspiration from him

Shekhar Gupta: Our 'joota hai Japani' defence

The past 20 years, under three PMs, have shown us the defence Budget is not about to go higher than its ballpark of 1.5 per cent of GDP, besides pensions

Shekhar Gupta: Robbing the middle class to pay the poor?

The poor are fooled purely for their cheap thrills and entertainment, but the real joke is on the middle classes