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Shekhar Gupta is Editor-in-Chief of ThePrint and one of India’s most distinguished journalists. A recipient of the Padma Bhushan and multiple journalism awards, he has reported on key events in India and from around the world since the 1980s. At ThePrint, he does a daily online show, Cut the Clutter, in which he dissects, analyses, and contextualises complex daily news developments and current affairs. He also writes his weekly column National Interest.
Shekhar Gupta’s journalism represents the same middle class and corporate interests.
Too much democracy. We look at China’s economic transformation and draw absolutely the wrong conclusions. China’s successes are despite, not because, it is autocratic, decisions can be imposed from above. We owe to ourselves, at least partly because the two countries have been locked in mortal combat, at least since 1962, to analyse why, for example, its manufacturing sector is now ten times larger than India’s. Translated into much larger volumes of foreign trade as well.
Too long in power!!
Run out of ideas.
He has established the various manipulative ideas which will reverberate for decades: Saffronising all institutions including SCI, military, Election Commission. Eliminated a lot of non-Hindus (muslims mainly) with SIR. Systematic massaging of economic indicators, and now corruption- from Ram Mandir to everywhere.
Time for a change. I did vote for him twice. Not anymore.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Does petrol blended with ethanol reduce mileage. Does it damage the engine. This is a scientific question to which there can only be one truthful answer. Before expanding the blending programme to such an immense scale, the best science on the subject should have been evaluated within the government. Willing to bet a tankful of pure petrol it wasn’t. Institutional decision making. A collegial, Cabinet style of governance, different ministers placing contrasting, conflicting views, then these being harmonised keeping a larger national interest and perspective in mind. 2. Missing altogether in this equation is the customer, citizen, voter. So confident of her support, an informed national debate preceding major decisions is not considered necessary.
To start the weekend on a facetious note, what is the mood amongst those who are NOT core voters.
There is nothing to worry. During elections just utter “Abdul” and the committed voter will fall in line.
If the technical people and vehicle manufacturers explain the confusion to public about misconception about ethanol blending by continuous information bombardment to drown the opposition clamor on social media, then their anger will subside. currently, such rebuttal by qualified folks is not high enough. Ethanol blending is a good step for environment protection and the farmers and use of excess grains and sugar canes. Currently, 98% petrol cars are running on CNG. Bikes and scooters are running on petrol. But this segment is switching fast on e scooters. So it is info management is the solution rather than backtracking on E-20 as the new cars are compliant for this.
I never thought I’d miss the days of coalition politics where all options were bad but one still had the option of being able to unseat the government during elections.
What we have now is an extractive government, an inept opposition, well fed and well subsidized vote bank, and a middle class that’s left holding the bag.
As someone who has grown up in a BJP leaning family with multiple family members in the RSS, now I am itching to vote for Rahul Gandhi, only if he were to say something sensible.