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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Asim Munir just stole his 5th star & has nothing to show for it. It'll make him desperate, dangerous
1 week ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
The short answer is, India must always worry about the Pakistani army, and it does. Just that, there’s this added concern and urgency with this bizarre promotion from within the ‘system’ or maybe from outside it, depending on where you place Shehbaz Sharif in this arrangement. What will he do with his fifth star, only for the second time in Pakistan’s and the subcontinent’s history? (Our three five-stars, Cariappa, Manekshaw and Arjan Singh were handed ceremonial batons).
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rediff.com | Shekhar Gupta
'Will this near-war, India's strongest military response so far, buy India another seven years of deterrence?' asks Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: Indian Army soldiers during a military drill with heavy artillery at an undisclosed location along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in north Kashmir. A simple question, days after the Indian Air Force and Indian Army struck nine terror bases in Pakistan: Why do nations have armies? Is it to fight wars?
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta
There's an all-new N-word now. And India’s soft power is its hard realityIndia is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we …
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2 weeks ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
Victimhood is compellingly seductive and we have cultivated it into a chronic disease across generations. There are, however, factual problems with this. First, we’ve never been alone, except in 1965. In 1971, the Soviets were our treaty-bound allies. During Kargil, Op Parakram, and 26/11 almost all of the rest of the world leaned towards us. Even the Chinese were nuanced. Even in 1965, the Soviets were halfway to getting hyphenated with India.
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2 weeks ago |
rediff.com | Shekhar Gupta
The launch of the first-ever direct train service from Delhi to Kashmir would be a big turning point in the Valley's mood and its integration with India. He had to thwart it at any cost, asserts Shekhar Gupta. Nobody can be sure why a Pahalgam-level provocation was carried out, and at this time. Or, precisely on April 22. We can, however, offer some educated analysis and connect a few two and twos. The first piece in this jigsaw is the April 16 speech by General Asim Munir.
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