The talk,wherever you go chasing elections in Uttar Pradesh,is about education,jobs,better life,aspiration. Why we call this random series of writings...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Secularism is Dead!
If the opinion polls turn out to be generally correct, and Narendra Modi comes to power, it will unleash an...
After May 16
One of the deadliest truisms in our business of reading election trends is, never trust journalists with their predictions. But...
If Modi Wins On Sunday
On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if...
Gently, Your Lordships
One would have to be smoking something illegal to be even remotely seen to be defending Subrata Roy Sahara, N....
Who’s afraid of Neville Maxwell?
I am of the vintage that grew up detesting Neville Maxwell as an utterly contemptible India-hater. Or worse. A pro-Chinese...
Main Hoon Aam Patrakar
Having plagiarised the Aam Aadmi Party’s trademark, why don’t I borrow their cap as well. Except, I am not sure...
Mr Tebbit goes to Meerut
Several years ago, the then British high commissioner suggested, in the course of a spirited conversation one evening at his...
Committee on Insecurity
For five years now, UPA 2 has been pilloried for ruining India’s economy, and deservedly so. But what has remained...
India Stinc
The real identity of Lagadapati Rajagopal, the Congress party’s pepper-spraying MP from Andhra Pradesh, was not known to me till...