One of the more striking observations recorded by Megasthenes, the brilliant chronicler and fellow traveller of Alexander the Great, was...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
The chatteranti
You’d be surprised to realise how it is much more likely you would get away with saying something entirely facetious...
Yes, we can’t
Much stirring prose has already been written by much better writers on Barack Obama’s victory speech at Chicago, so I...
It’s not about 272
While the entire nation watches in disgust the deal-making and horse- trading that mark the current turn in our politics,...
The lane permit quota raj
Memory may usually play funny games with one’s mind, but sometimes it can be deadly serious. As it was with...
The rurban mind
Ever since the Karnataka defeat, the Congress party’s closet-coterie Rajya Sabha warriors have been inventing new excuses. One of these...
And then there were nine
How would you describe the electoral contest in Karnataka? Whether it is a two-way or a three-way fight would depend...
To Wistfully in Shillong
Every reporter pays his dues doing one beat, or story, in his lifetime. I paid mine covering the Northeast between...
Northeast is India
Our prime ministers, in fact most of our most important leaders, rarely visit the Northeast. And even when they do,...
If Modi wins on Sunday
On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if...