Ordinary lives are cheap in India. So all government has to do in name of disaster management is to dole...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Getting His Foreign Policy Right
A busy foreign policy season first up in a new prime minister’s tenure is a gift, a bit like cricket’s...
There Is No Plan To Look For Allies For A Pre-Poll Tie-Up’
The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together...
Stolen Power To The People
The mention of filmmakers Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, or “actors” Loha Singh and Ritu Maheshwari, may make you wonder...
Pracharak Modi: True To His Mask
Answer this one honestly. In all your life, have you seen anybody else, or specifically, any public figure who resembles...
Our Essential Qualifications Have Changed…
I had promised to write specially to my fellow reporters. I am delivering on it now, sure enough, just before...
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Writings on the Wall is a metaphor I use for a different series of writings, from travels across India, mostly...
1 Assassination, Countless Murders
The assassination of Indira Gandhi caught me on the wrongest foot possible: in transit from New York to New Delhi....
Since 1984
There will always be argument over which might be the most important or newsy year in India’s history and if...
The audacity of incompetence
The first of this three-part series concluded yesterday, saying the rise of Bhindranwale and his death with Operation Blue Star...