Shekhar Gupta

5 days ago | flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta

15 hours agoIndia activates S-400 as Pakistan missiles target Jammu region, intercepts all foreign threats mid-airJammu and Kashmir - May 08, 2025 India's air defence systems sprang into action after Pakistan launched loitering munitions and missiles targeting multiple locations across Jammu and Kashmir, including Jammu city's airport. The incident occurred in Rajouri, northern India, on May 8.

5 days ago | theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta

Why alarm? Think another date. India was to launch the Vande Bharat Express between Delhi and Srinagar on 19 April, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi was expected. That the inauguration was postponed because of bad weather is beside the point. Munir did not know this while making his speech. This train, the coming out party of Naya Kashmir, brought in that urgency and desperation.

6 days ago | theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta

The casus belli in this case is Pahalgam and it is astounding—and disappointing—how it has faded from not just international media, but ours too. If that massacre hadn’t taken place, we wouldn’t be here today. Pahalgam, thus, was the first step on the escalatory ladder. Why did the Pakistani establishment and their proxies choose this action, we will analyse in another article over the next couple of days. This story isn’t going anywhere.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta

20 hours agoPakistan has downed 5 Indian Air Force jets: Defense chiefSHOTLIST: PAMPORE, INDIA (MAY 7, 2025) (ANADOLU – ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF INDIAN FORCES AROUND WITH ARMORED VEHICLESPAMPORE, INDIA - MAY 7, 2025: Indian Security forces patrol the street near Wuyan area of Pampore in south Kashmir, where reportedly an unknown fighter jet has fallen as India carried out strikes in Pakistan.

1 week ago | theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta

The second, the optics, packaging and headline-management for India’s riskiest moment in a generation. And third, the audacity it needed to take risks of this magnitude, to game the escalation ladder and tolerance/acceptance levels. The most remarkable is the surprise. With Uri and Pulwama, the Modi government had set a template. Everybody in Pakistan—and indeed in India—knew the strikes were not a matter of whether, but when.