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
US and China are 2 clashing elephants. India can't be the grass under their feetUS-China trade war has opened many possibilities for all swing states and India is the most consequential of them. It has to rededicate itself to …
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1 week ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
• Can India afford to be grass? • What can India do to avoid getting mauled in the melee like grass, and also turn it to its own advantage? This superpower trade war has opened possibilities for all swing states, of which India is the biggest and the most consequential. At the very least, there might be things India can make for the US markets that the Chinese can’t compete with, given these tariffs.
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2 weeks ago |
rediff.com | Shekhar Gupta
India needs another shot of difficult reform, of the kind only possible at gunpoint. Mr Trump holds that gun to our heads now. A drastic reduction in tariff protection, other elements of sarkari wet-nursing will force entrepreneurial India to become competitive again, argues Shekhar Gupta. IMAGE: US President Donald Trump with the signed executive order on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, April 2, 2025.
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2 weeks ago |
theprint.in | Shekhar Gupta
He did so by playing diverse, all-sacrificing, heroic and, ultimately, victorious characters as Bharat: an ordinary soldier (and a Haryana farmer’s son) in Upkar, 1967, a betrayed freedom fighter’s brilliant son in Purab Aur Paschim, 1969, and an unemployed engineer in Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (RKM), 1974. Each of these reflected the theme of the fast-changing India from the early Indira era until the Emergency broke this momentum and brought the angry young man in its wake.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Shekhar Gupta
Trump tariffs are a gun to India's head. That may just be the best thing yetTrump threatening to pull the trigger might be just what is needed to wake up India’s self-congratulatory establishment from its headline-managing …
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