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Shekhar Gupta: Mammaries of the Socialist Raj

The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that

Shekhar Gupta: The WhatsApp governance

After sharp shifts on strategic policies, demonetisation without data, debate, de-risking or war gaming marks Mr Modi's governing style

Shekhar Gupta: Voter ko change pasand hai

No, it isn't change for Rs 1,000 or Rs 500 notes. It's the reason why a post-ideological majority is turning insurgent

Shekhar Gupta: Dial 2016 for Emergency

India is complacent if not complicit as in 1975-77. Dangers are bigger now as we have a clear external enemy, strong economy & feckless opposition

Shekhar Gupta: Soft power, hard battles

Soft power is not just about movies, sport, music and culture. It's also about quality of democracy and institutions, moral influence

Shekhar Gupta: Kitney Pakistani Thhey?

More the better, and better dead than alive. When journalism is reduced to touching simplicities, it begins to self-destruct

Shekhar Gupta: Nawaz Sharif- Twice bitten, not shy

He knows he isn't the only one helpless. So is his army, given the near-impossibility of a coup in 2016

Shekhar Gupta: End of history, beginning of history

India's declared strikes have questioned the sanctity of the LoC, raised the nuclear threshold and redefined strategic restraint

Shekhar Gupta: Pakistani Army's delusion and self-destruction

Pakistan's military is a formidable force that has consistently failed its country. The problem is nobody in Pakistan can dare question it

Shekhar Gupta: Modi's NAM - A New Alignment Movement

Modi has debunked uncontested old wisdom that foreign and strategic policy must follow broad national consensus despite change in governments.

Shekhar Gupta: In spite of being mediocre

India's bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity - from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is an apt metaphor

Shekhar Gupta: Fasting activism, feasting followers

Irom Sharmila without tubes is of no use to those who built careers around her. But she realised an activist alive was better for her cause than a dead one

Shekhar Gupta: Faster, higher, stronger, but for God's sake, be calmer

No country can go from zero to hero in Olympic sports. A hundred Indians now feature in the top-25 and why that's real progress

Shekhar Gupta: Alcohol 0%, populism 100% v/v

Nitish Kumar confirms the rising phenomenon of maximum populism in Indian politics: a consensus paving the road to disaster

Shekhar Gupta: Discourse on Delhi's new daredevils

Arvind Kejriwal may feel victimised by the Modi government but he is revelling in it too much, risking a constitutional breakdown

Shekhar Gupta: Hit by contradictions - from cow to caste

Why BJP can't realise its dream of uniting with culture (Hindutva) what sociology (caste) divided

Shekhar Gupta: How to lose your Kashmir & keep it too

It's not even about Kashmiri territory or Kashmiris, India or Pakistan. It's now Hindu versus Muslim and a lose-lose

Shekhar Gupta: Zakir Naik, the misinterpreter of maladies

The gentle, rock-star televangelist is dangerous as young Muslims can be swayed by his interpretations of Islam and justify victimhood and extremism

Shekhar Gupta: Modi's talent account deficit

A big-hearted leader finds talent wherever available and packs his team with it. Narendra Modi is yet to do this

Shekhar Gupta: Hypocrisies of History

Modi, powered by 282, relative youth and an uncluttered mind, has completed the post-Cold War correction in foreign policy begun by Narasimha Rao