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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.
More of the typical sab chalta hai attitude. 10-15% can be the difference between life and death for a pilot and victory and defeat for the nation.
Accepting 10 – 15% below the ideal is a luxury the armed forces cannot afford. They face Pakistan to the west, its military capabilities augmented, sometimes fused, by China. On the northern frontier, a PLA that benchmarks itself to the Pentagon.