In Ep. 1869 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains the instances of lathicharge, tear gas shelling & pellet firing in Delhi during the CJP ‘Sansad Chalo’ March.
In Episode 1607 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta lists the key takeaways from the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump in Washington.
In Episode 1605 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta & Political Editor D.K. Singh discuss the future of a fraught INDIA bloc in the aftermath of the Delhi elections.
In Episode 1604 of CutTheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta & Deputy Editor Moushumi Das Gupta discuss what led to Singh’s fall, BJP’s future in Manipur, among others.
In Episode 1598, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta examines the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr—an anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, and political chameleon.
In Episode 1597, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta discusses NITI Aayog's latest Fiscal Health Index report, how states are doing & and other key takeaways.
In Episode 1596 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta delves into the vice-president's call to do away with the parliamentary whip system & how it could strengthen democracy.
In Episode 1569 of Cut the Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta traces al-Jawlani's past & how the takeover of Syria signals a decline in the idea of global jihad.
In the capitals that will now be the unhappiest, a Kamala Harris victory was presumed, and a lot of actions and calculations were predicated upon that.
It’s tempting to read Baba Ramdev’s recent spats as an imminent ‘friendship cancel’ with the BJP. After all, the two entities have been locked in a symbiotic dance for years.
Russia now accounts for about half of India’s crude imports. Experts say this reflects source diversification, but high concentration carries risks from sanctions, shipping curbs.
Sergio Gor visits C-130J production line at TLMAL as Tata and Lockheed Martin explore the Medium Transport Aircraft competition and expand defence manufacturing in India.
At some point Pakistani dictators begin to show paranoia. That’s the strategic reality most relevant to India since the late fifties. Munir’s case is worse, like some sudden acrophobia.
His Excellency spends fourteen minutes explaining pellet gun bore diameters and deflector mechanisms, yet somehow can’t spare a sentence for the 200 policemen who went home with cracked skulls and stitches on July 20. Fifteen police vehicles were smashed.
Retired Delhi cops are literally organising their own dharna demanding action against the “gangsters and habitual offenders” who showed up that day. And when police actually ran background checks on the crowd, nearly 980 out of 2,873 people had criminal records – murder, rape, dacoity, arms cases, the works.
None of this makes it into a piece that treats five pellet victims as worthy of Supreme Court-level legal analysis. You can’t build a case for one-sided state brutality while ignoring that a third of the “protesters” were career criminals who’d probably never read a NEET question paper in their life.
Maybe the police weren’t cracking down on students that day. Maybe they were just doing their job against people who’d already exhausted every peaceful option available to them and chose stones instead.
This column isn’t dishonest, exactly but it’s just curated so carefully that the omissions do the talking.
Kudos, though, for the photo choices. Room for terrorist Burhan Wani in full military fatigues, but not one frame for a Delhi cop bleeding from a stone to the skull. Apparently a dead terrorist’s image is more newsworthy than a living policeman’s wound. Victimhood, it seems, needs a photogenic face.
His Excellency spends fourteen minutes explaining pellet gun bore diameters and deflector mechanisms, yet somehow can’t spare a sentence for the 200 policemen who went home with cracked skulls and stitches on July 20. Fifteen police vehicles were smashed.
Retired Delhi cops are literally organising their own dharna demanding action against the “gangsters and habitual offenders” who showed up that day. And when police actually ran background checks on the crowd, nearly 980 out of 2,873 people had criminal records – murder, rape, dacoity, arms cases, the works.
None of this makes it into a piece that treats five pellet victims as worthy of Supreme Court-level legal analysis. You can’t build a case for one-sided state brutality while ignoring that a third of the “protesters” were career criminals who’d probably never read a NEET question paper in their life.
Maybe the police weren’t cracking down on students that day. Maybe they were just doing their job against people who’d already exhausted every peaceful option available to them and chose stones instead.
This column isn’t dishonest, exactly but it’s just curated so carefully that the omissions do the talking.
Kudos, though, for the photo choices. Room for terrorist Burhan Wani in full military fatigues, but not one frame for a Delhi cop bleeding from a stone to the skull. Apparently a dead terrorist’s image is more newsworthy than a living policeman’s wound. Victimhood, it seems, needs a photogenic face.