IE Columnist: Shekhargupta

Opportunity, Made in China

2009-11-07T00:01:59+05:30

We need to view Beijing through a new prism: move from border upgrade to national upgrade...

The Idea of Indira

2009-10-31T00:01:58+05:30

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...

The Maha Crater

2009-10-21T00:01:57+05:30

This 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.

Stop fighting the 1962 war

2009-09-19T00:01:56+05:30

This is 2009, India and China have stakes higher than a post here or a hill there. Scare-mongering is damaging us.

Our Chinese Wall

2009-09-12T00:01:55+05:30

We need to break it to move beyond the escapism and paranoia that sustain our China policy

The tragedy and the trend

2009-09-05T00:01:54+05:30

In death as in life, YSR symbolised the powershift to CMs —something Congress was the last to get...

The making of the Flaw Purush

2009-08-30T00:01:53+05:30

Advani’s spin-doctors painted him as Patel, air-brushed his ‘soft’ spots which led to a series of blunders...

Masters in illiberal arts

2009-08-22T00:01:52+05:30

Amid 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.

Drought-proofing India

2009-08-15T00:01:51+05:30

If 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.

A new Project Pakistan

2009-08-08T00:01:50+05:30

We tell the world to dehyphenate its India policy from Pakistan. Can we be creative to do it ourselves?...

Two PMs, One Big Idea

2009-08-01T00:01:49+05:30

It 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.

The big rewrite

2009-07-25T00:01:48+05:30

Don’t fret over the lines of the Indo-Pak joint statement. A bold grand strategy may lie between them....

Babuji dheere chalna

2009-07-18T00:01:47+05:30

That’s our national theme song. That’s why we don’t like Sreedharan forcing the pace or Sibal thinking bold....

Conflicts of cricket

2009-06-20T00:01:46+05:30

The arrogance and money power of the IPL have made BCCI too brazen. For cricket’s sake and its own, some self-correction is needed

That dangerous feeling

2009-06-13T00:01:45+05:30

It is fascinating how all the conversation around the new government’s agenda, even the 100-day plans being drawn up...

Remember, don’t forget

2009-06-06T00:01:44+05:30

Congress's tough lesson of 1984: trust instincts, don't flinch from change. Or euphoria of 206 could vanish twice as fast as that of 412

His next class act

2009-05-30T00:01:43+05:30

A radical revamp of higher education is the only way to do justice to the politics of aspiration

Hands down

2009-05-17T00:01:42+05:30

There are winners and there are losers in any election. But this is one election India can feel particularly good about....

On the wall, off the road - 2

2009-05-15T00:01:41+05:30

UP’s path from grievance to aspiration, from Habiba Beauty Parlour to Lohia Convent

On the wall, off the road - 1

2009-05-14T00:01:40+05:30

Looking at the voter’s heart and the candidate’s head — through the Limousine Liberal window

Hindu rate of BJP growth

2009-05-09T00:01:39+05:30

It’s become a low-150s party. And will stay that way until it moves from Hindu Rightto centre-right

The partyless wonders

2009-05-02T00:01:38+05:30

The new crop of independents mean well. But they don’t understand or respect our politics

Shed no tears for Tigers

2009-04-25T00:01:37+05:30

Even as the LTTE is crushed, it is important to understand how ruthless the Tigers were

The glorious certainties

2009-04-18T00:01:36+05:30

Four things you can be sure of in an election that is too uncertain to call

No first-use options

2009-01-17T00:01:35+05:30

For five years, our politics has starved our military. Now we’re suffering the consequences