Modi, the mask, ideology
December 13, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
One more round of elections is over and we can future-gaze. Let’s begin with a question we raised in a National Interest exactly three months af...
Chance to reform, redeem India's distorted electoral fundi...
September 20, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration: Binay Sinha
At the root of all political corruption is electoral funding. It began with the first general election i...
‘Othered’ Muslim in Modi-BJP era: 3 essentials before moun...
July 16, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint
With the end of Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, M.J. Akbar and Syed Zafar Islam’s Rajya Sabha tenures, Narend...
A car called Congress
May 19, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Sonia Gandhi opened her Congress’s long-delayed “Chintan Shivir”, or introspection huddle in Udaipur, with a call to reinvent t...
As alternatives to the Congress emerge, the BJP ought to b...
May 9, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration: Binay Sinha
Between the 2009 and 2014 to 2019 general elections, the BJP nearly doubled its national vote share. The more...
Secular Islamophobia
April 25, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
A dominant assertion in the traditional old “secular” circles is that good sense in Indian politics has been bulldozed and Islamophob...
Karnataka, you have a problem
April 4, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka and the engine of India’s start-up and tech entrepreneurship, is also blessed with great weather....
Why the Modi-Shah BJP loses
March 14, 2022
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By: Shekhar Gupta
The headline of this week’s column may seem risqué, but here is why it isn’t. The BJP, since its rise under Narendra Modi and...
Nagaland massacre shows AFSPA is a deadly addiction. Does...
December 13, 2021
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration by Soham Sen | ThePrint
To describe the killings in Nagaland’s Mon district bordering Myanmar merely as unfortunate will be a...
India can’t alienate its 20 crore Muslims, not when Taliba...
September 6, 2021
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By: Shekhar Gupta
Illustration: Manisha Yadav | ThePrint
Three diverse but serious voices have emerged over this week to bring the focus back on India’s appr...
Xi has thrown the gauntlet at Modi. He can pick it up like...
June 21, 2020
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By: Shekhar Gupta
As Mao did to Nehru in 1959-62, Xi Jinping has thrown at Prime Minister Narendra Modi the biggest challenge in his public life. Over the next few days...
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