Topic: Walk the Talk
‘No worries, I am not pedigreed’: How I discovered the charming George Fernandes
George Fernandes had none of the pettiness of today’s politicians whose first response to a questioning journalist is to shut the door on them.
Azhar Maqsusi: The man looking to eliminate hunger from India, one meal at a time
Azhar Maqsusi, who founded the NGO Hunger Has No Religion, shares his journey with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on Walk The Talk.
Indian designs are chic and people here are very elegant, says Stefano Ricci
On this week’s Walk The Talk, Shekhar Gupta converses with Italian fashion designers.
‘Indian Army does not like being committed to civilian operations, they’re our own people’
On this week’s Walk The Talk, Shekhar Gupta catches up with soldier, diplomat and academician Zameer Uddin Shah.
When Gita Gopinath batted for a GST with few slabs & talked of hope in an ‘unliberal’ world
As Gita Gopinath is appointed the IMF chief economist, we revisit an interview with Shekhar Gupta on Walk The Talk.
Meet India’s only truly world-class athlete, and it’s not Virat Kohli
Shekhar Gupta catches up with javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, 21, who won India its first Asian Games gold in the sport at the Jakarta games.
India is a secular country, citizenship should not be conferred on basis of religion: BJP ally Mahanta
AGP chief and former Assam CM Prafulla Mahanta threatens to walk out of NDA if BJP goes ahead with the citizenship bill.
AGP will pull out of alliance if BJP goes ahead with citizenship bill: Prafulla Mahanta
If passed, the bill will allow Indian citizenship to illegal Hindu migrants dropped from NRC, says the former Assam CM.
I like characters with complexes or characters dealing with situations: Rajkummar Rao
‘Shahid’ got me a lot of recognition as an actor, 'Bareilly Ki Barfi' fetched me commercial success'.
Need to take an extra step & maintain new equilibrium with China: Ex-NSA Shivshankar Menon
A boundary is a useful issue to regulate the temperature of India-China relationship, but it’s a lever, said Menon.
Tablighi Jamaat will have to change its ways in post-Covid world order
Jamaat’s religious puritanism can’t be an excuse for endangering public health, nor can its criminal negligence in keeping infected foreign preachers be condoned.
How is Modi’s BJP different from the one founded by Advani-Vajpayee 40 years ago?
Forty years ago, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani founded BJP. Today it's led by Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo, who have won two general elections with full majority.
Defence
5 Special Forces men, 5 terrorists: How a deadly hand-to-hand fight at the LoC unfolded
Five commandos of the elite 4 Para were killed in action after they eliminated 5 terrorists from Pakistan in close combat in J&K’s Keran sector.
Poke fun at taali, thaali, diya and mombatti all you want. Modi couldn’t care less
Modi knows who he needs to speak to, who he should toss, who he can address in kind. People accuse him of infantilising his voters, but it’s a winning strategy.