Every budget, every election campaign, every presidential address to Parliament, brings new promises, homilies and subsidies for our farmer. Farming...
Author: Shekhar Gupta (Shekhar Gupta)
The party is brain dead
Ever wondered why the Congress party is like the Indian cricket team? And it isn’t merely because they too keep...
Kebabs and Kargil
In so many years of parachute journalism a hack does end up writing on aneclectic mix of issues, but this...
In the red and desperation
Try a daytime cruise on the Hooghly for a crash course in Left economics. On each bank, you see an...
Icondemnyou.com
“I have always been struck by the fact that while the criminal is free to commit the crime, the police...
Your turn to strike, Mr Prime Minister
You might think I need to get my head examined for saying this, but here is my list of the...
State of sterile mind
On principle, you cannot question the Vajpayee government’s “clean up” of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts (IGNCA). What...
National interest
Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you JaywantYashwant Lele, our latest cricket star. He is...
Watching Generation X in Hindi heartland
The obvious question as you see Priyanka Gandhi rousing the family’s old electoral heirloom in Amethi is, why did she...
The borderline of peace
The latest buzz in the international strategic community at this moment is the idea, put forward by renowned US expert...