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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

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: Brexit ripples

We are erring in taking a one-dimensional view of Brexit by limiting our concerns to its implications for financial markets. Its political fallout can be way more far-reaching and serious

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: 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