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Mammaries of the socialist raj

Shekhar Gupta -
The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.
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The WhatsApp governance

Shekhar Gupta -
After sharp shifts on strategic policies, demonetisation without data, debate, de-risking or war gaming marks Mr Modi's governing style.
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Soft power, hard battles

Shekhar Gupta -
Soft power is not just about movies, sport, music and culture. It's also about quality of democracy and institutions, moral influence.
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Kitney Pakistani thhey?

Shekhar Gupta -
More the better, and better dead than alive. When journalism is reduced to touching simplicities, it begins to self-destruct.
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Pakistani Army’s delusion and self-destruction

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistan's military is a formidable force that has consistently failed its country. The problem is nobody in Pakistan can dare question it.
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For whom the bell trolls

Shekhar Gupta -
Trolling isn't nice but it isn't substantive either. That it's public is a further test of your wisdom and sanity.
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Genetically ossified absurdity

Shekhar Gupta -
GM is already in our food chain for years. The approval for indigenous GM mustard should put fake fearmongering to rest.
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Faster, higher, stronger, but for God’s sake, be calmer

Shekhar Gupta -
No country can go from zero to hero in Olympic sports. A hundred Indians now feature in the top-25 and why that's real progress.
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Discourse on Delhi’s new daredevils

Shekhar Gupta -
Arvind Kejriwal may feel victimised by the Modi government but he is revelling in it too much, risking a constitutional breakdown
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How to lose your Kashmir, and keep it too

Shekhar Gupta -
New turn reveals our ugliest underside: it's not even about Kashmiri territory or Kashmiris, India or Pakistan. It's now Hindu Vs Muslim and a lose-lose
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Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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