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Shekhar Gupta: When Modi's fans & foes agree he's unbeatable

Modi loyalists believe they've destroyed Congress by being better at their game: Welfarism, national security obsession bordering on jingoism, and an almighty personality cult

Shekhar Gupta: It's just not cricket, MS

Dhoni shouldn't take his regiment to the pitch. Sportsmen bring glory for their nations by playing to win, not as ambassadors for their militaries

Shekhar Gupta: Sushma Swaraj, a self-made success in patriarchal party

Sushma wasn't a typical BJP 'mahila'. In her dignified departure, the BJP will miss an Indian woman politician with many enviable firsts

Shekhar Gupta: Mandal, Mandir make way for Modi

BJP's Mandir politics has subsumed Mandal under Modi-Shah and created a pan-Hindu vote. Modi's challenger has to invent a new politics

Shekhar Gupta: If Pragya wins on Thursday

Never has one constituency had such a bearing on Indian nationalism and the pretence of a Gandhian polity. So what if PM Modi doesn't forgive her in his heart?

Shekhar Gupta: Congress needs to return to 2019

Numbers show Congress is the only party that can deny BJP a second term. But it hasn't shown focus, resolve, organisation & decisiveness needed to do so

Shekhar Gupta: Modi out to conquer his 'Jingostan'

Modi-Shah BJP has resurrected dangers and the enemy from the past and built a scary jingoism. It's a great diversionary tactic but history shows it never ends well

Shekhar Gupta: Modi walks into his own Pakistan trap

Weigh the facts and see who it is that walked into a trap, and who laid it

Shekhar Gupta: A national election of state leaders

India today has about 20 strong state leaders and no national leader can take their voters away. Modi can't swing majority for BJP in more than seven states

Shekhar Gupta: Pakistan has pulled the trigger on itself

Pakistan has taken too much of a chance with Pulwama - with the wrong government in India, and at the wrong time

Shekhar Gupta: Modi's slipping on the Rafale slope

All the Modi govt needed to do was come clean on Rafale - we dismissed bureaucratic objections as we wanted deal done quickly for IAF

Modi's fate: Between magic, math & Maya

Surveys say BJP will fall far short of a majority. We lay out six factors that will determine who will be our next PM and who won't

Shekhar Gupta: A Shiv ji ki baraat without a groom

India is mushrooming with Deve Gowda wannabes because being a former prime minister is better than being a former chief minister

Shekhar Gupta: Rahul Gandhi needs votes, not just retweets

His 'hate-Modi' campaign might hurt BJP but won't win votes for Congress because it doesn't know what its base is

Shekhar Gupta: The year that changed the 2019 race

Twelve months have rewritten India's political script and Lok Sabha elections this summer will see a real contest

Shekhar Gupta: 10 rude lessons for BJP

The humility with which the BJP deals with these 10 lessons will determine the outcome of 2019

Shekhar Gupta: India gets a National Security Adviczar

Ajit Doval is now India's all-powerful security boss. This concentration of power disrupts our layered security system

Shekhar Gupta: Reverse sting in the media tale

News of the death of Indian journalism is fake. But it is scary that the richest media owners can't spot a 'Bunty Aur Babli' type con

Shekhar Gupta: Time to strike the gavel

Judges are squabbling, popular confidence in the institution is frayed and the executive is poised to bury the hatchet: In its back. Can an exhausted judiciary fight back?

That 272-or-bust feeling: Modi is fighting to retain BJP's majority

Modi is a constant campaigner. His focus on the Congress may have looked over the top but there is a purpose to his excess