Pakistan has been back in the headlines lately, and we have nothing to do with it at all. You haven’t...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Decide On The Doctor
Here are the three most popular political questions these days: is UPA 2 dead, or not quite dead yet but...
The Game’s Gentleman
It is because nostalgia is an attribute so essential to the love of cricket that so much cricket writing is...
Unfair India
In these furiously confused times when fiction sounds so much sexier than fact and when scorn and anger seem to...
Annationalism
Pratibha, daughter of L.K. Advani, has recently produced a very impressive documentary titled Tiranga, on the history of our national...
Message from the Maidan
An interesting feature of this Gandhian anti-corruption movement, under the leadership of India’s most famous Gandhian since Gandhi himself, is...
The Aam Anna Aadmi
At least, two things about Anna Hazare’s movement are indisputable: its dominant anti-Congress impulse, and its distinctly middle-class character. It...
Fighting Shy
The standout news story of this week was this newspaper’s defence correspondent Manu Pubby’s on the note of regret that...
Jan Lok Sabha
What a pleasant feeling it is writing a curtain-raiser of sorts to a new Parliament session. A resumption of old-fashioned...
The Arresting Moment
First the disclaimer: no,I did not attend any of Ghulam Nabi Fai’s now infamous conferences. Then the disclosure: of course,I...