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Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta is a senior journalist and author. He is the founder and current editor-in-chief of ThePrint. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009. He writes a weekly column for the Business Standard, which appears every Saturday. He has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today.
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Business Standard
4 days ago
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Bhagwat sets off jitters at 75: BJP's shift towards empowering youth
BJP had no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to the Vajpayee-Advani era Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article Please do not fall into the trap of the usual cliches like 'setting the cat among the pigeons' over the statement by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief (Sarsanghachalak) Mohan Bhagwat that, once they attain the age of 75, leaders should think of retiring and yield to younger colleagues. This caution is needed because in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and particularly the BJP-RSS relations, there will always be the Modi exception. To think that this is a nudge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to step down as he turns 75 on September 17 this year, six days after Mr Bhagwat,
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Business Standard
05-07-2025
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Kutch key to Sindoor sequel: Forgotten war holds lessons for future plans
Kutch is our most forgotten war with Pakistan. Learn from it and draw up a plan for the next six months, two years and five years Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article While it is only India that still formally calls Operation Sindoor an unfinished business, both countries are seeing it as something of a trailer. Or a prelude to the next round. Not an issue fought to any conclusion. The subcontinent's record tells us this is not the best place to be in. We have a precedent in the short Kutch conflict of April 9, 1965. Both sides called a truce, but the first full-scale India-Pakistan war followed five months later. Pakistan launched the war having learned the wrong lessons from Kutch. We might hope for better sense six decades later.
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Business Standard
07-06-2025
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Two fronts & The King's Gambit: China uses Pakistan to triangulate India
It is safer to presume that the Chinese now see Pakistan as an extension of their Western Theatre Command premium Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article History gives every war a name. Officially, there's a pause, but the fighting lasted about 87 hours. Will it suffice for the future generations for it to be listed merely as the 87-hour war? I would, however, suggest a description, if not a sharp, hashtag-worthy name. What we've seen just now is the opening move in a two-front war. You could call it a trailer. It's just the early moves in a long-drawn war of wits, nerve, and military muscle. How do I explain this more succinctly? For once, I would avoid the temptation of the usual trope — a
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Business Standard
24-05-2025
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Indians must eschew prejudice if they want the 'narrative' on their side
Victimhood is often seductive and we have cultivated it into some kind of a chronic disease across generations. There are, however, many problems with this proposition Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article No, it isn't the N-word for nuclear weapons. National Interest shies from such simplicity or predictability and searches for complexity. That's why our N-word this week is 'narrative', an expression so clichéd that I have banned it in successive newsrooms, unless, of course, narrative is what we are talking about. The murmurs started immediately after the Pahalgam outrage. Why is the world not upbraiding Pakistan? That complaint became a clamour with Operation Sindoor. Why is nobody saying 'well done'? The Western media were the usual suspects. Why aren't they acknowledging our armed forces' successes? How dare they equivocate or suggest
