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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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?
Clash within civilisations
The world has changed in a manner nobody had imagined. Definitely not those who imagined that people need to be divided by religion, culture, civilisational differences to go to war with each other
 "Clash within civilisations")
Karnataka, you have a problem
BJP's politics is threatening to rob Karnataka of social cohesion, harmony and an inclusive culture, so necessary for entrepreneurship that builds start-ups worth billions and fuels growth of a nation
Self-interest policy
It is naive to expect nations to let their strategic choices be determined by morality. Nations act only in their own interests. All else comes later
Our many forgotten files
It is ridiculous that The Kashmir Files debate has become trapped in questions like how many Kashmiri Pandits were killed
 "Our many forgotten files")
The power of 2, plus 1: Seven takeaways from Assembly Elections 2022
In Assembly Elections 2022, Modi has become a colossus Indian politics hasn't seen, Kejriwal has established a new politics of his own kind, and Yogi is the leader to watch
 "The power of 2, plus 1: Seven takeaways from Assembly Elections 2022")
Cows, bulls, jobs, caste
Caste is back and joblessness is the new nationalism and religion. This UP election is a more 'normal' and fiercely contested one after three walkovers
Why's Buddha frowning
Would it have been so simple for Russia to crush Ukraine if it hadn't given up its nuclear stockpile in 1994? India was prescient to declare itself a nuclear-armed state
Good guy to crook: Journalists' image in popular culture has changed
Their fall from grace pretty much reflects the abuse and trolling they face on social media.
IPS, IRS, IAS & some headliners
Aryan Khan-Wankhede story shows why hallowed Class One Services needs to ask if its people are becoming famous for following their oath or not
 "IPS, IRS, IAS & some headliners")
