
Shekhar Gupta
The Indian Express Group

Saturday 7 November '09
We need to view Beijing through a new prism: move from border upgrade to national upgrade...Saturday 31 October '09
What makes it even more challenging to understand a personality like Indira Gandhi even 25 years after her passing is the fact that you are...Wednesday
21 October '09This is obviously not my year for catching up with a drought. It is not as if the facts, or rather what the venerable Narayana Murthy of Infosys would call “data”, do not confirm a drought.Saturday
19 September '09This is 2009, India and China have stakes higher than a post here or a hill there. Scare-mongering is damaging us.Saturday
12 September '09We need to break it to move beyond the escapism and paranoia that sustain our China policySaturday
5 September '09In death as in life, YSR symbolised the powershift to CMs —something Congress was the last to get...Sunday
30 August '09Advani’s spin-doctors painted him as Patel, air-brushed his ‘soft’ spots which led to a series of blunders...Saturday
22 August '09Amid all the noise made over Jaswant Singh’s book and his expulsion one statement stands out. It came from Arun Jaitley, the first to be fielded to defend the expulsion.Saturday
15 August '09If the drought, which now threatens to be one of the worst in recent memory, has left you depressed, do this on this Independence Day weekend.Saturday
8 August '09We tell the world to dehyphenate its India policy from Pakistan. Can we be creative to do it ourselves?...Saturday
1 August '09It is fascinating that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh invoked the Vajpayee spirit to seek both inspiration and validation for his own move at Sharm el-Sheikh.Saturday
25 July '09Don’t fret over the lines of the Indo-Pak joint statement. A bold grand strategy may lie between them....Saturday
18 July '09That’s our national theme song. That’s why we don’t like Sreedharan forcing the pace or Sibal thinking bold....Saturday
20 June '09The arrogance and money power of the IPL have made BCCI too brazen. For cricket’s sake and its own, some self-correction is neededSaturday
13 June '09It is fascinating how all the conversation around the new government’s agenda, even the 100-day plans being drawn up...Saturday
6 June '09Congress's tough lesson of 1984: trust instincts, don't flinch from change. Or euphoria of 206 could vanish twice as fast as that of 412Saturday
30 May '09A radical revamp of higher education is the only way to do justice to the politics of aspirationSunday
17 May '09There are winners and there are losers in any election. But this is one election India can feel particularly good about....Friday
15 May '09UP’s path from grievance to aspiration, from Habiba Beauty Parlour to Lohia ConventThursday
14 May '09Looking at the voter’s heart and the candidate’s head — through the Limousine Liberal windowSaturday
9 May '09It’s become a low-150s party. And will stay that way until it moves from Hindu Rightto centre-rightSaturday
2 May '09The new crop of independents mean well. But they don’t understand or respect our politicsSaturday
25 April '09Even as the LTTE is crushed, it is important to understand how ruthless the Tigers wereSaturday
18 April '09Four things you can be sure of in an election that is too uncertain to callSaturday
17 January '09For five years, our politics has starved our military. Now we’re suffering the consequences