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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicShekhar Gupta

Topic: Shekhar Gupta

Stars and gripes

By the moral logic that countries should withdraw from multilateral organisations whose policy they do not believe in, the US should make a beginning by leaving the United Nations.

Watching Generation X in Hindi heartland

The emotion that drove 27-year-old Priyanka Gandhi ahead of the 1999 Lok Sabha elections was no different from what fired her political cousins in Amethi.

The violent aftermath

The pattern of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots was defined by arson and destruction taken over by hoodlums who killed Sikhs, burnt their homes while the police twiddled their thumbs.

On Camera

Zohran Mamdani’s New York win revives a forgotten history — of Gujarati Muslim cosmopolitanism

From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Doctor-led terror module behind Delhi blast was in phase 2 of ops, planned serial bombings in December

While main elements behind terror module have been nabbed, more arrests will take place, including some professors & academicians who were part of the ring, it is learnt.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.