How many of you know who Mark Tully is? I always ask the audience of senior officers at both our...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Fixerpreneurship
Here are some tricky questions we need to face, even if we cannot convincingly answer them. Is UPA 2 the...
Coal Vs Coalition
No, the BJP hasn’t lost it. It does not believe that the prime minister will resign just because it is...
We, The Ignorant
A venerable old teacher in my journalism school taught us the three example rule. So here are the three I...
There’s a Gold Lining
Medals apart, one of the more stirring Indian moments of this Olympics came on Friday evening when Amit Kumar, still...
The PC option
P. Chidambaram is not exactly the most widely acknowledged Mr Congeniality in our politics. The BJP, egged on by the...
Shoot me, the messenger
The late Edward S. Behr (Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? besides much else), a delightfully versatile journalist-writer, used...
The Meena Kumari Politics
Last two years’ electoral politics has made one thing clear: You no longer win elections in India by reminding people...
It’s the Highest Office
Four interesting notions have lately emerged in the public discourse on the forthcoming presidential election. First, that the current jockeying...
The 24th Chief
He will count for no more than a footnote, albeit a sizeable, sad but unforgettable one, as his successors pick...