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11.082012July 24, 2015

There’s a Gold Lining

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Medals apart, one of the more stirring Indian moments of this Olympics came on Friday evening when Amit Kumar, still...

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04.082012July 15, 2015

The PC option

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

P. Chidambaram is not exactly the most widely acknowledged Mr Congeniality in our politics. The BJP, egged on by the...

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14.072012July 15, 2015

Shoot me, the messenger

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

The late Edward S. Behr (Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? besides much else), a delightfully versatile journalist-writer, used...

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30.062012July 15, 2015

The Meena Kumari Politics

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Last two years’ electoral politics has made one thing clear: You no longer win elections in India by reminding people...

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16.062012July 15, 2015

It’s the Highest Office

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Four interesting notions have lately emerged in the public discourse on the forthcoming presidential election. First, that the current jockeying...

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02.062012July 15, 2015

The 24th Chief

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

He will count for no more than a footnote, albeit a sizeable, sad but unforgettable one, as his successors pick...

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26.052012July 14, 2015

Crude Politics

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

UPA’s dismal political management turns a belated (and much needed) petrol price hike into an ‘event’ More than two months...

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19.052012July 14, 2015

Anybody Out There?

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Government’s inaction down the line is only matched by the silence at its top The flavour of this disastrous season...

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12.052012July 15, 2015

Committee on Insecurity

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

That’s what the CCS has been reduced to: the top brass of this govt, each one looking over his shoulder...

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05.052012July 14, 2015

Pranab, We Presume

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

It is not often that Renuka Chowdhury says something and makes you think. But in this case, you have to...

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28.042012July 14, 2015

With Prejudice

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

By giving communal twist to naming of next Army chief, PIL tried to revive fears long buried until apex court...

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14.042012July 14, 2015

BJP, The Lonely

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

UPA is sinking, but the BJP is adrift, having failed to reconfigure itself to a changing urban India There are...

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