Shekhar Gupta
The Indian Express Group
Saturday 12 July '08
How the Left and BJP got obsessed with the personal — and lost the politicalSaturday 5 July '08
Left misread him, Congress misunderstood him. He is a politician who will never close his optionsSaturday
28 June '08Dr Singh took the political call in May ’04 when he accepted her offer. Now Sonia’s choice: statesmanship or cynical politickingSaturday
31 May '08The village and the city are increasingly thinking alike. Congress, trapped in the old, ignores this new idea of a new IndiaSaturday
24 May '08That’s the number of states which hold key to who will rule the Centre. So, farewell, national leaders; welcome, regional winnersSaturday
17 May '08Twenty-five years later, has India finally caught up with Meghalaya? Or is it just the other way round?Saturday
3 May '08Will Sheila Dikshit cut her losses on the BRT or serve the ‘cause’ of an ill-planned ideological project on Delhi roads?Saturday
23 February '08And neither do Musharraf’s US handlers. Watch for another round of political bloodlettingSaturday
16 February '08Not the exotic, tribal paradise hijacked by five decades of our wisdom. That’s why the PM’s visit to Arunachal could impact the idea of IndiaSaturday
19 January '08Things have quietened down in Pakistan a bit, and there is some sense of comfort particularly in world capitals where concern...Saturday
12 January '08For a sport built around history, statistics and tradition, isn’t it amazing how short our memories can be?Saturday
5 January '08The Indian politician bumbles, the Pakistani general strides purposefully in his natty suits. Guess who keeps his country stable.Sunday
30 December '07Of the four generals who robbed Pakistanis of democracy, Zia-ul-Haq was the most ‘successful’. His hold on power was total and lasted nearly a decade.Friday
28 December '07Like all great political figures, Benazir Bhutto was far from perfect.Saturday
22 December '07On the eve of the 2002 Gujarat elections, I had stuck my neck out to predict, somewhat audaciously, that if Modi wins...Saturday
15 December '07Narendra Modi’s supporters — and you still find lots and lots of them in Gujarat — would like you to believe that he is more than just invincible.Sunday
19 August '07The jury is still out on whether the UPA Government will survive the current crisis, or, even if it does, how battered it will emerge from it.Sunday
12 August '07For 3 yrs, the Congress doormat let the comrades walk all over it. The Left deluded itself, helped by the capital’s rent-a-quote liberals, into believing the worm will never turn. Well, it hasSunday
22 July '07That’s one plausible version of the scary summer of ‘09. Congress is bought out by the Left , the BJP looks so much like a loser that all its allies have walked away. The Big Two have left the field , for a coalition of the extremely willing to rush inSaturday
14 July '07Will the Congress, BJP hear this message from Chandra Shekhar: Why have you stopped talking, this is no way to run India’s politics.Saturday
7 July '07From Sarojini Nagar to Mumbai blasts — the guilty are still out there. Is Congress politics tying its government’s hands on terrorism?Saturday
30 June '07Congress was so careful when it chose its PM. So why did it choose a president who will gift Rashtrapati Bhavan its most controversial five years?Saturday
23 June '07Most Congress ministers who wanted to be president in 2007 know they will be nowhere in 2009. That says a lot about the quality of the Congress-led cabinetSaturday
9 June '07Musharraf is watching them hit the streets. Pakistan’s history will tell you why he can’t figure them outSunday
27 May '07Today’s politics is an interplay of greed of those who have and anger of those who have not. It’s the job of the reformer and the statesman to be effective intermediary
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