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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: 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

Shekhar Gupta: A Nagpur manifesto

Why the reality of the new RSS-BJP arrangement should be accepted but questioned on its view on diversity

Shekhar Gupta: Behind the closet

Rising prosperity has not changed attitudes, it has merely enabled us to exploit cheap labour as 'domestics'

Shekhar Gupta: The canary and the deep state

Why Khurshid Kasuri may have his story-telling right but politics wrong

Shekhar Gupta: Mainstreaming the Lynch-Fringe

Dadri killing is a chilling turning point in our politics, as no one condemns the mob outright

Shekhar Gupta: An unusual traveller

Even New York cabbies take note as Modi drops by. Can he use foreign visits to craft a larger agenda?

Shekhar Gupta: Back to future on a postage stamp

Why RSS/BJP's war against Nehru & heirs is as cussed as it is revealing about their lack of alternative heroes

Shekhar Gupta: Broken politics, constant combatants

Why India Inc and party persons dare not share their anxieties with Narendra Modi or Sonia Gandhi - and how this harms governance