Here is a proposition. That we have been so caught up in our own political change, concerns in the neighbourhood...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
The Paper Tigers That Roared
Every capital city is a benighted one, New Delhi probably more than most. You do not track shifting winds by...
Our right to offend
On a night when every journalist and commentator in the world is taking a position on the Paris massacre, National...
Good Sense, Bad Laws And Ugly Politics
Between the purist and the pragmatic, there are many divergent views on the Modi Government’s latest ordinance blitz. My own...
Lose the Headline, Lose the Plot
The law of averages catches up with even the best. As it seems to have with a quaintly named star...
Bad Taliban Vs Their Own Useful Lashkars
Let’s be honest. There is much revulsion in India over the mass slaughter in Peshawar. There is sympathy for Pakistan....
The Nation wants to ban
It’s our instinctive reaction: have problem, ban something.It solves nothing, and leaves Indians getting on with life at certainty of...
Saving Indian Liberalism From Its Left-Liberal Elite
By the time this week’s INDIA TODAY hits the stands, one thing would have become clearer: whether Narendra Modi is...
Obama at Rajpath: Not just another selfie moment
While the focus this week has been on Kathmandu and on the Modi-Sharif non-meeting, a landmark foreign policy event has...
Ushering India Back to a Vedic Future
Is Narendra Modi a moderniser or a traditionalist? Is he forward-looking or trapped in the past, however glorious? Does he...