Li Peng should consider himself lucky he had only the customary Tibetan protestors to greet him on arrival. This time,...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
The Punjab parable
In so many years of making a living covering troubled zones there were at least two occasions I was convinced...
To Kashmir, via the world
The Uttar Pradesh Tourism Department has lately been aggressive in advertising the Taj Mahal. But, if you look closely at...
The wisdom of fools
If only the Congress party was half as smart as some of its opponents are stupid, it wouldn’t have been...
The shame game
Of all sports, cricket has the most special quality to inspire superior prose. At Portsmouth yesterday, it was Rahul Dravid...
Generally speaking
Thanks to the Jang group of newspapers in Pakistan, which also publishes The News which was at such odds with...
Tigers and the Taj
Years after the conservative English columnist Bernard Levin had got us so outraged we have now provided evidence — with...
Azaadi to autonomy
For once Kashmir is in the national headlines for reasons other than the daily business of violence and killings. The...
Sport without borders
There are some striking similarities between Indian cricket and English football. Both lose consistently. Both make news for all the...
The `Passwan’ factor
Are you likely to be on Yashwant Sinha’s side or Ram Vilas Paswan’s on thequestion of giving away free phones...