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Shekhar Gupta: Kitney Pakistani Thhey?

More the better, and better dead than alive. When journalism is reduced to touching simplicities, it begins to self-destruct

Shekhar Gupta: End of history, beginning of history

India's declared strikes have questioned the sanctity of the LoC, raised the nuclear threshold and redefined strategic restraint

Shekhar Gupta: Pakistani Army's delusion and self-destruction

Pakistan's military is a formidable force that has consistently failed its country. The problem is nobody in Pakistan can dare question it

Shekhar Gupta: For whom the bell trolls

Trolling isn't nice but it isn't substantive either. That it's public is a further test of your wisdom and sanity

Shekhar Gupta: Genetically ossified absurdity

GM is already in our food chain for years. The approval for indigenous GM mustard should put fake fearmongering to rest

Shekhar Gupta: Modi's NAM - A New Alignment Movement

Modi has debunked uncontested old wisdom that foreign and strategic policy must follow broad national consensus despite change in governments

Shekhar Gupta: In spite of being mediocre

India's bane is our easy embrace of mediocrity - from academia and science to business and military power. Sport is an apt metaphor

Shekhar Gupta: Faster, higher, stronger, but for God's sake, be calmer

No country can go from zero to hero in Olympic sports. A hundred Indians now feature in the top-25 and why that's real progress

Shekhar Gupta: Alcohol 0%, populism 100% v/v

Nitish Kumar confirms the rising phenomenon of maximum populism in Indian politics: a consensus paving the road to disaster

Shekhar Gupta: Discourse on Delhi's new daredevils

Arvind Kejriwal may feel victimised by the Modi government but he is revelling in it too much, risking a constitutional breakdown

Shekhar Gupta: Hit by contradictions - from cow to caste

Why BJP can't realise its dream of uniting with culture (Hindutva) what sociology (caste) divided

Shekhar Gupta: Modi's talent account deficit

A big-hearted leader finds talent wherever available and packs his team with it. Narendra Modi is yet to do this

Shekhar Gupta: Hypocrisies of History

Modi, powered by 282, relative youth and an uncluttered mind, has completed the post-Cold War correction in foreign policy begun by Narasimha Rao

Shekhar Gupta: Stink-tank strategies

In stinking new politics, thieves get away, as mud-slinging and dirty tricks become weapons of mass self-destruction

Shekhar Gupta: Brexit ripples

We are erring in taking a one-dimensional view of Brexit by limiting our concerns to its implications for financial markets. Its political fallout can be way more far-reaching and serious

Shekhar Gupta: Our 10, Drowning Street

No, Congress isn't dead yet; it has become two distinct parties, one of the durbar, the other of the field and if they keep drifting apart, death is a certainty

Shekhar Gupta: Modi is our most Nehruvian PM since Nehru

If Narendra Modi's worldview is truly at variance with Nehru's, we are still looking for evidence, at least on economic and foreign policies

Shekhar Gupta: Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Post-assembly polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance

Shekhar Gupta: Return of the angels

Aims of social justice and purge of Brahminism achieved, Dravidian politics has dumped atheism as freebies are the new god

Shekhar Gupta: Writings on the Bengal wall

Reading the realigning colours of political India