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Category: National Interest

05.122015December 5, 2015

Democracy by Danda

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

That’s how our politics is with no inner-party democracy. That’s why we should listen to Hilary Benn speech If you...

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28.112015November 28, 2015

Don’t smile too much, Congress

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

The post-Bihar “revival” of the Congress is limited to the front pages – the party’s secular decline has not been...

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21.112015November 28, 2015

Narendra Modi – candidate to PM

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why the prime minister’s legacy will depend on how he governs, not the number of state elections he fights as...

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13.112015November 17, 2015

Pulping the Modi script on Muslims

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

How BJP’s panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into ‘secular’ basement Bihar has brought the...

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10.112015November 10, 2015

Bihar is not Gujarat: How Modi-Amit Shah misread 2014 verdict

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

It was the model of growth not polarisation that won BJP the Lok Sabha election. The biggest mistake political leaders...

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10.112015November 10, 2015

Modi will now face serious heat

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

If the BJP is the new Congress, the opposition won’t take 40 years to unite against it. This has been...

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09.112015November 10, 2015

Modi’s 2014 after-glow is over

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why the Bihar defeat can be the best thing for him as PM, but only if he has the humility...

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07.112015November 9, 2015

If RSS is ISIS…

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why India needs a new mainstream liberalism, and not the durbari Left, to counter the nutty new Right You can...

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02.112015November 2, 2015

A heartland-rending tussle

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why and how the BJP and the Congress respond to the faith-versus-caste debate will still shape politics The interplay of...

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25.102015October 25, 2015

A Nagpur manifesto

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why the reality of the new RSS-BJP arrangement should be accepted but questioned on its view on diversity While the...

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