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: 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
Shekhar Gupta: Stink-tank strategies
In stinking new politics, thieves get away, as mud-slinging and dirty tricks become weapons of mass self-destruction
Shekhar Gupta: Modi is our most Nehruvian PM since Nehru
If Narendra Modi's worldview is truly at variance with Nehru's, we are still looking for evidence, at least on economic and foreign policies
Shekhar Gupta: Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance
Post-assembly polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance
Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019
BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019
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