Page 2 - National Interest

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

Shekhar Gupta: Nota for 1984 - Why AAP lost Punjab

AAP lost because it took a communal view of the state, stirred old anger, and embraced radicals

Shekhar Gupta: Back to a future we buried

Indian cricket has risen because of small-town, aggressive players who are superior to past stars

Shekhar Gupta: A wake-up call at home

Much of the pre-2014 peace in our hotspots is diminished. Kashmir is the boil, Northeast anarchic

Shekhar Gupta: Writings on the Punjab wall

Voters don't care if AAP is a party of outsiders, AAP is set to rise as a national force

Shekhar Gupta: Of the tweeple, by the tweeple, for the tweeple

Social media can be dangerous if it replaces traditional governance, politics or debate

Shekhar Gupta: One belt, one road to world leadership

China's superpower goals are known. India must move on from its 1962 mindset & respond strategically

Shekhar Gupta: Read my lips, forget the camera

Say Central forces' angry soldiers. They need reform, committed leaders. And very sensitive handling

Shekhar Gupta: Strong arm, over the cricket

Market forces have bred Indian sport. Fixing ills with a sledgehammer can fell a game at its peak

Shekhar Gupta: The Power of One

That's all it takes to protect an institution - just one person with no past & no greed for the future

Shekhar Gupta: Burdened with Indiranomics

The Modi government shows a fascination for rejecting everything Nehru stood for, while embracing his daughter's political economy

Shekhar Gupta: Charge of the Believer Brigade

The original promise of demonetisation has evaporated. We didn't deserve to be hit by a 1,100-volt shock just to switch to digital payments

Shekhar Gupta: The race to demonetise Modi

Demonetisation is Modi's make-or-break gambit for 2019. Opposition leaders see a vulnerability and won't gift pre-eminence to Congress

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: 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: 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