It can break your heart to tell the story of the terminal decline of a state you so love, where...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Anticipating India
A selection of the pieces from the book (HarperCollins Publishers India and Express Book Series) that foreshadowed the big changes....
When Mary Kom stares down at Narendra Modi
Writings on the wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly, but not necessarily, during elections (for...
Gogoi, The Only Congressman Smiling…
If you’ve known Assam’s third term chief minister Tarun Gogoi for any length of time, you’d know him as an...
Mere Pass Space Hai
It’s been a decade since Kolkata ceded to Mumbai its pre-eminence in globalising popular culture and serious literature. From Suketu...
Navi Calcutta
Wasseypur, immortalised in Anurag Kashyap’s violent two-part epic, is now more or less subsumed by the expanding coal town of...
Stumbling on Sonianomics
Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns...
Me Captain, You Team: Very Vain, Very Effective
If you wanted to be so boringly accurate, wounded tiger is a description that will fit Imran Khan, now that...
Allah and Aam Aadmi
Over the years (post-Sharm el-Sheikh, let’s say), our view of Pakistan has become re-militarised as its own society’s has become...
In A Tearing Hurry-Ana
YOU have to be ridiculously parochial to say something as outrageous as what Haryana thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. Risks...