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Bihar isn’t ‘ruined’ by agri reform. This ‘branded underwear theory’ from 2010 shows why

Shekhar Gupta - 11 December, 2020

Punjab’s frustration & anger is rooted in its steep decline, now visible in farmers’ protests

Writings on the UP Wall-II: Aspiration and desperation in UP’s East

Writings on the Uttar Pradesh Wall-I

Writings on the Bengal wall

Shekhar Gupta - 1 May, 2016

Reading the realigning colours of political India.

Gen gana mana of youth

SGIN - 7 November, 2015

Aspiration screams out of every billboard in Bihar, and could well decide who gets to rule the state, come 8 November.

East to west, money defines politics in India’s double-income, no ideology city of ‘freedom fighters’

SGIN - 30 January, 2015

Delhi is driven by greed, ambition and arrogant, freebooting cynicism as no other city in the country. AAP has figured out the havenots, BJP its old, pushy made-gooders, and Congress none at all.

Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Modi in Mhara state

Shekhar Gupta - 9 October, 2014

Let me begin this ride with an opening gambit that only a pukka native of my home state could get away with in our...

Before the Secular Dip, Hold Your Nose

SGIN - 12 May, 2014

Having made only four really short visits as a reporter to Varanasi, spread over almost four decades, I can't be so pretentious as to...

Huggies diapers in Vaishali, Muslim-Dalit IIT-Jee coalition

Shekhar Gupta - 7 May, 2014

Bihar is the cradle of India's post-1975 politics. The JP movement that provoked the Emergency and started the process of the Congress party's decline,...

The rich and the ostrich

Shekhar Gupta - 30 April, 2014

Absolute truths do not matter. Which is why, even in landslide election verdicts in India, voter swings are rarely in double digits.

Mere pass space hai

SGIN - 23 April, 2014

Space is the currency of Mumbai and in such short, finite supply, it occupies the minds of everyone — the rich, the poor, and the powerful.

Navi Calcutta

Shekhar Gupta - 23 April, 2014

Wasseypur, immortalised in Anurag Kashyap's violent two-part epic, is now more or less subsumed by the expanding coal town of Dhanbad, and located in...

Stumbling on Sonianomics

Shekhar Gupta - 23 April, 2014

Writings on the Wall is a metaphor that emerged from travels across India, particularly but not necessarily during election campaigns. Writings on the Wall,...

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