Shekhar Gupta
The Indian Express Group
Saturday 19 May '07
Ask your partymen to read a forgettable chapter in India’s, Punjab’s and Congress’s historySunday 13 May '07
And I will make you Queen, not mere kingmaker. That’s the voter’s message from Lucknow. So watch out for 2009Saturday
5 May '07An assault on the VIP culture is long overdue. At stake is rescuing the establishment from popular contemptSaturday
28 April '07You can see its emerging contours in UP rallies: Leaders moving away from cliche, voters moving to the centre — politics of aspiration slowly edging out politics of grievanceSaturday
21 April '07Voters in India’s largest state may be coming out of their trenches. Celebrate, unless you are the politician who built those trenchesSaturday
7 April '07We love things foreign. We love to blame foreigners. May globalisation cure us of this national schizophreniaSaturday
31 March '07To demand the Cup was ridiculous. Nothing about this team — form, fitness, recent record — suggested it could last 11 matches to the World CupSaturday
24 March '07Incumbent Congress will face an aspirational, impatient, urbanising electorate. Confused Congress doesn’t know any more who aam aadmi is. Recipe for big troubleSaturday
17 March '07With 62 MPs Left hijacked the national political agenda. Now, one man, Buddha, is forcing Left to confront its own political agendaSaturday
10 March '07And Congress can’t ignore it: The Akali-BJP win despite a bloody Hindu-Sikh history challenges the secular vs communal clicheSaturday
16 September '061983, there was the Fidel-Indira bear hug. 2006, we wait for a Manmohan-Musharraf jhapi as the Havana photo-op — how the world has changedMonday
4 September '06He has scaled the summit of two sports, won India’s top sporting award and he’s still only 21. World billiards champion Pankaj Advani, in conversation with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, reveals a wise head on his young shoulders on NDTV 24x7’s Walk The Talk programmeSaturday
26 August '06Far from all the noise over Amsterdam and the war on terror, in the Ustad’s shehnai lies the note of reasonSaturday
19 August '06Loose talk about a mole does injustice to the men who made possible India’s long and dangerous march to Pokharan ’98Saturday
12 August '06To understand why the mole story has bombed, you need to rewind to the summer of 1990. A story in two partsSaturday
5 August '06Truth is boring, a terrible enemy of conspiracy theorists. Perhaps, that’s why it’s the first casualty in the mole warSaturday
29 July '06Did someone in Rao’s PMO leak nuclear secrets to the US? Or were Americans told what Rao wanted them to hear?Saturday
15 July '06Before Mumbai, the Indian state was at its obliging best against terror. After Mumbai, UPA has no choiceSaturday
8 July '06When a PM loses authority, his party suffers. Congress saw it in 1989 and may see it again — before 2009Sunday
2 July '06In some ways, this ‘apolitical’ PM, his core group, and Sonia personify some of the ideas that Rajiv spoke so passionately about at his peak.Saturday
24 June '06CMs from north, south, east and west of the country are embracing markets and corporate investment.Tuesday
13 June '06The government should create additional seats, not 30 per cent but 1,000 per cent, by opening up the education sector. In a conversation with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta in NDTV’s Walk the Talk, eminent heart surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty suggests the way ahead for a country that needs 1 lakh doctors a year but gets only 18,000Saturday
3 June '06That’s what our politicians, left and right, seem to be saying as they take on the Election Commission, the SC, and now the PresidentSaturday
27 May '06Higher education is the last relic of the quota raj. Can the PM do for our children what he did for us in 1991?Saturday
6 May '06Amma’s got a lot done so why’s she worried? Is there a gleam behind those famous Karunanidhi goggles? What’s Kalam doing atop a building? Looking for answers from a limo
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