Can’t say who will win this time but you surely can’t miss the first stirrings for a new deal in...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
Bihar Dust, Congress Cloud
Driving around Bihar you couldn’t be faulted for wondering sometimes if finding a Congress flag even in times of election...
Diplomacy’s Red Flag
Looking back on the week, you can’t help thinking the windmills are really in fashion this season. Your television channels...
Yes, Chief Minister
Nearly a decade of coalition rule now has produced many fundamental changes in our politics. But none of these is...
72 Hours, 21 Years
I suspect each one of us who covered the anti-Sikh riots as reporters in November 1984 has a persistent nightmare....
Liberate Our Cities
You have to give it to the very young South Bombay MP for having started a debate ‘ on these...
Our pipeline of control
Finally, our political and parliamentary debate is breaking out of the straight-jacket of national consensus. This writer has often complained...
The Bomb and the Bombast
Just a couple of weeks after Pokharan II and Chagai, I got into an entirely avoidable argument with a junior,...
Crippling the Doctor
One of the most remarkable events in our recent politics is the claim that after Left Front leaders met the...
Terrorists Rush in Where…
It would obviously be too far-fetched to read too much into the terror attack at Ayodhya and the serial blasts...