Page 3 - National Interest
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
Shekhar Gupta: For whom the bell trolls
Trolling isn't nice but it isn't substantive either. That it's public is a further test of your wisdom and sanity
Shekhar Gupta: Genetically ossified absurdity
GM is already in our food chain for years. The approval for indigenous GM mustard should put fake fearmongering to rest
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: 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: 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: Our 10, Drowning Street
No, Congress isn't dead yet; it has become two distinct parties, one of the durbar, the other of the field and if they keep drifting apart, death is a certainty