How do you define a recession? Economists will tell you it is when growth turns negative. But others have simpler...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Deeply in love with life — and himself
We all know the adjectives that will be repeated often as tributes pour in for Dev Anand: evergreen, ageless, romantic,...
Self-Opposition Party
Could it be that we have been so obsessed with the freeze in the UPA as to totally overlook the...
Get out, leave Af to Pak
The sharply polarised political debate on the nuclear deal was the most significant instance of the so-called holy national consensus...
Winning 1971 Again
When you look back on a sharp, short and decisive war with the benefit of four decades of hindsight, you...
No Noose Is Good Noose
Can one be so daft as to find something in common between the new Press Council chairman, Markandey Katju, and...
Sporting Declaration
In a political power structure that runs mostly on wind energy, you would trust one of the most energetic young...
Be very afraid
Pakistan has been back in the headlines lately, and we have nothing to do with it at all. You haven’t...
Holier than Cow
In Vishal Bhardwaj’s Ishqiya , the most adorable uncle-nephew pair of tramps (played brilliantly by Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi)...
The Officer Raj
On the last working day of September, the Nandan Nilekani-led UID Authority received a rather clinical-sounding communication from the Comptroller...