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Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta - 27 April, 2024

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

Opposition is fighting to limit Modi, not defeat him. And survive nuclear winter

Why BJP has more lessons to learn about governance

Shekhar Gupta - 22 May, 2016

Post assembly-polls, Narendra Modi should not miss the opportunity to change course and discourse, from combat to governance.

Five predictable results make for an uncertain 2019

Shekhar Gupta - 20 May, 2016

BJP's leadership has earned itself a post-Bihar reprieve, but it hasn't brought them a more convincing nationwide claim in 2019.

A general called Jake

Shekhar Gupta - 16 January, 2016

India did not do well enough by Lt General Jacob, but, besides its Great War hero, he remained an ambassador of its core values.

Pulping the Modi script on Muslims

Shekhar Gupta - 13 November, 2015

How BJP's panicky return to basic-instinct majoritarianism in Bihar has pushed Muslims back into 'secular' basement.

Bihar is not Gujarat: How Modi-Amit Shah misread 2014 verdict

Shekhar Gupta - 10 November, 2015

It was the model of growth not polarisation that won BJP the Lok Sabha election.

Modi will now face serious heat

Shekhar Gupta - 10 November, 2015

If the BJP is the new Congress, the opposition won't take 40 years to unite against it.

Modi’s 2014 after-glow is over

Shekhar Gupta - 9 November, 2015

Why the Bihar defeat can be the best thing for him as PM, but only if he has the humility to read the writing on the wall

If RSS is ISIS…

Shekhar Gupta - 7 November, 2015

Why India needs a new mainstream liberalism, and not the durbari Left, to counter the nutty new Right.

A heartland-rending tussle

Shekhar Gupta - 2 November, 2015

Why and how the BJP and the Congress respond to the faith-versus-caste debate will still shape politics.

Mainstreaming the lynch-fringe

Shekhar Gupta - 3 October, 2015

Dadri killing is a chilling turning point in our politics, as no one condemns the mob outright

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National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

44 years on, two things that have changed in Modi’s BJP, and one that hasn’t

Opposition is fighting to limit Modi, not defeat him. And survive nuclear winter

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