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Business Standard
02-08-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
To handle Trump's irrationality, India must fix its own bipolar discourse
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, we must first introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse. You could start with Modi's rise in the summer of 2014 Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article Psychoanalysing Donald Trump is a booming global business. We in India are doing our bit. The only objective, however, is to find a way of surviving him for about two more years. It can't be to cure him. Nobody has a pill or therapy for him. India has to look at ways to protect itself from his industrial-scale irrationality. To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy on social media, we must first introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse. Establishment here means not just the Modi government but also much of its support base in public debate, from social media to
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Business Standard
19-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Joys of Trumplomacy: Public, loud, and focused on American supremacy
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 Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article In the name of making America great again, Donald Trump is reviving anti-Americanism in far parts of the world where it had gone into dormancy. His playbook so far has been to publicly ridicule and humiliate allies and flirt with adversaries, theirs and his country's. For us, in India, his loudly and repeatedly claiming credit for stopping the war through intervention and mediation has reopened the old wounds of hyphenation. Those on the Left and in the larger anti-Modi ecosystem are smirking in quiet celebration: What did you expect when you supped with the devil? And who knows, if he
Business Standard
13-07-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Shekhar Gupta
Shekhar Gupta is a senior journalist and author. He is the founder and current editor-in-chief of ThePrint. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009. He writes a weekly column for the Business Standard, which appears every Saturday. He has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today.
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Business Standard
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Bhagwat sets off jitters at 75: BJP's shift towards empowering youth
BJP had no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to the Vajpayee-Advani era Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article Please do not fall into the trap of the usual cliches like 'setting the cat among the pigeons' over the statement by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief (Sarsanghachalak) Mohan Bhagwat that, once they attain the age of 75, leaders should think of retiring and yield to younger colleagues. This caution is needed because in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and particularly the BJP-RSS relations, there will always be the Modi exception. To think that this is a nudge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to step down as he turns 75 on September 17 this year, six days after Mr Bhagwat,
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Business Standard
05-07-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Kutch key to Sindoor sequel: Forgotten war holds lessons for future plans
Kutch is our most forgotten war with Pakistan. Learn from it and draw up a plan for the next six months, two years and five years Shekhar Gupta Listen to This Article While it is only India that still formally calls Operation Sindoor an unfinished business, both countries are seeing it as something of a trailer. Or a prelude to the next round. Not an issue fought to any conclusion. The subcontinent's record tells us this is not the best place to be in. We have a precedent in the short Kutch conflict of April 9, 1965. Both sides called a truce, but the first full-scale India-Pakistan war followed five months later. Pakistan launched the war having learned the wrong lessons from Kutch. We might hope for better sense six decades later.
