Shekhar Gupta
Founder and Editor-in-Chief at ThePrint
Host at ThePrint Podcast
Founder, ThePrint. Politics, governance, non-hyphenated journalism. And typos are my fingerprints.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta
6 hours agoDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — When Ellie, a British-Iranian living in the United Kingdom, tried to call her mother in Tehran, a robotic female voice answered instead. “Alo? Alo?” the voice said, then asked in English: “Who is calling?” A few seconds passed. “I can’t heard you,” the voice …
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1 week ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
You have to have the wherewithal to deal with them. Ideally, one at a time but be prepared in case they decide to collude, either indirectly as principal-and-proxy as during Operation Sindoor or, who knows, in active warfare. The first element of Indian grand strategy, therefore, has to be to prevent. Of the two, militarily and economically, India is much better equipped to deal with Pakistan.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta
15 hours agoPakistan: China-built 1,403-meter highway tunnel dug through in PakistanThe longest tunnel of China-built Karakoram Highway relocation project was successfully dug through on Thursday. The Logro-B tunnel, a 1,403-meter section of the Karakoram Highway linking Pakistan with China, is designed in compliance with Chinese tunnel design standards. The realignment project of the existing Karakoram Highway is undertaken by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
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2 weeks ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
The second can be called ‘stature denial’. Given its growing Comprehensive National Power (CNP), India believes it deserves a sphere of influence. If ally Washington sees the region through an India-Pakistan prism, it’s unacceptable. Rather than endorse India’s sphere of influence, this undermines it. This is double trouble as China is already working hard at denying India that pre-eminence, which Pakistan calls hegemonism.
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2 weeks ago |
rediff.com | Shekhar Gupta
India had better be prepared. Munir could be back at our throats soon, even within the next 12 months, warns Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir. What can a Pakistan army chief do with a fifth star that he couldn't with four? What can a Pakistan army chief, master of all he surveys, do as field marshal that he couldn't as a mere general? It's tempting to say, little more.
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This isn’t any minister’s responsibility, for God’s sake. Newsrooms have to have editorial oversight of their own. Because the audiences are watching, and growing contemptuous. That’s the biggest punishment.
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