China may have recently returned to our headlines at least on some news TV channels and we can argue about...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
The Tragedy And The Trend
You have probably seen bigger outpourings of popular grief, and partymen’s sycophancy, following the deaths of many other regional or...
The Making of the Flaw Purush
It can be nobody’s case that L.K. Advani lacks political intellect, guile or commitment. For three-and-a-half decades now since he...
Masters In Illiberal Arts
Amid all the noise made over Jaswant Singh’s book and his expulsion one statement stands out. It came from Arun...
Drought-proofing India
If the drought, which now threatens to be one of the worst in recent memory, has left you depressed, do...
A New Project Pakistan
In a news discussion on Pakistan earlier this week, NDTV’s Prannoy Roy asked me, with a mix of exasperation and...
Two PMs, One Big Idea
It is fascinating that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invoked the Vajpayee spirit to seek both inspiration and validation for his...
The Big Rewrite
interactions with Pervez Musharraf during the Agra summit. He says he told Musharraf that if he really wanted to restore...
Babuji dheere chalna
Two things over the past two weeks underline for us one of the most chronic ailments of the modern Indian...
Conflicts of Cricket
Let me first state my biases, as one more cricket-crazy Indian, upfront. I am an unabashed admirer of the IPL...