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Category: National Interest

14.052015July 15, 2015

Abki Baar, U-Turn Sarkar

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Is making a U-turn necessarily a bad thing in politics and governance? Popular wisdom would say a resounding yes. The...

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07.052015July 15, 2015

Reclaiming the road

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Why the Salman saga is also about the sidewalk and roads that everybody deserves to share, irrespective of his net-worth...

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30.042015July 15, 2015

Rahul’s yankee rap

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Congress vice president’s anti-America attack on Modi flies in the face of his family’s and world history. It’ll find few...

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23.042015July 15, 2015

Makeover at 44

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

On the eve of the day when Rahul Gandhi was rumoured to return to Delhi, the Wall Street Journal carried...

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16.042015July 15, 2015

Fear of buying

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dramatic purchase of 36 Rafale jets has drawn extreme comments. One, that this is a bold,...

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09.042015July 22, 2015

Big Cities, Capital Drain

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Can there be anything more pretentious and lazy for a political/current affairs columnist than to use anniversaries of one’s own...

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02.042015July 15, 2015

Silence and surround sound

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Will Modi seize the reality check that a majority of Indians, including his 2014 voters, do not approve of a...

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26.032015July 15, 2015

The man who got it right: Poet, pragmatist, always political

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s greatest, durable legacy is to show that India is best governed with a large heart. Just how...

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19.032015July 15, 2015

Until holy cows come home: You call this maximum governance?

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

If Modi wishes to rise as a tall reformer PM, he must call the RSS/VHP bluff now. When Devi Lal...

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12.032015July 15, 2015

Why didn’t you want to resign, Dr Singh?

By Shekhar GuptaIn National Interest

Let’s ask why our former PM let Congress undermine his authority and that of his office. In his first conversation...

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