WRITINGS ON THE WALL - Shekhar Gupta

WRITINGS ON THE U.P. WALL-II: ASPIRATION AND DESPERATION IN U.P.’s EAST

Eastern UP’s people want out of their sub-Saharan trap. Politicians, including the PM, don’t get it Badlands is one of...

Aspiration is turning into desperation. Nobody has much hope in an era of new Hindu Rate of Growth, and identity...

Reading the realigning colours of political India You sure can read the writings on the wall travelling through poll-bound West...

Aspiration screams out of every billboard in Bihar, and could well decide who gets to rule the state, come November...

Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant,freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out...

Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns...

Having made only four really short visits as a reporter to Varanasi, spread over almost four decades, I can’t be...

Bihar is the cradle of India’s post-1975 politics. The JP movement that provoked the Emergency and started the process of...

Politicians and pundits both love to describe an election as a verdict from the people’s court. But it is, as...

It’s been a decade since Kolkata ceded to Mumbai its pre-eminence in globalising popular culture and serious literature. From Suketu...

Wasseypur, immortalised in Anurag Kashyap’s violent two-part epic, is now more or less subsumed by the expanding coal town of...

Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns...