There are parallels in the mandates that Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress won in December 1984, and Sonia Gandhi’s UPA in May...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
We, The Thieving People
Some questions can have only one answer. For example, is corruption a bloody awful thing? Are you sick and tired...
Media Star
Media baron James Murdoch, who was in India to attend the FICCI Frames Summit, talks to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief...
Minus the Left
Funny we still see 2012 as the most crucial year on way to the big 2014 general election, mainly because...
Constant Congressman
The first time I met Arjun Singh, he was not dealing with a real crisis. It was in Bhopal a...
Lok Sabha, 2014
The resumption of our parliamentary proceedings has coincided with the cricket World Cup. And, at least in the early rounds,...
Thank god for politics
Just a 90-minute interaction between the prime minister and the captains of electronic media in the country turned our...
The Ides of February
One challenge with analysing the situation in which the UPA government finds itself in its second term is that you...
Cry Freedom
As a confused world tries to understand the tremors of Tunisia and Egypt, as they shake up much of the...
Is Anybody Out There?
Speaking at a memorial meeting at Birla Matushri Sabhagriha on July 13, 2002, a week after Dhirubhai Ambani’s death, I...