The Consensus Man

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group

The 2014 election is a watershed event not only for the larger issues of governance but in human terms too. It is the first time that the country witnesses an election not commandeered by the 'big guns' of Indian politics. Like L. K. Advani or Pranab Mukherjee. While Advani can best play a bit role as ordained by Narendra Modi, the playwright-producer and lead cast of the BJP's 2014 number, Mukherjee got trapped by his own Congress party into the gilded cage of Rashtrapati Bhavan a couple of years back.

A Baffled USA

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group

Of all the aspirants for the prime minister's chair, it is certainly Narendra Modi who is uppermost on the radar of foreign observers—from both far and near. If he succeeds, there will certainly be a furious kerfuffle in the diplomatic quarters around the world. For the world sees him as a leader with a difference, not the type to accept the country's existing foreign policy paradigm as business as usual. In diplomacy, as in life, change means risk.

"Eveny Manager " MODI

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group 

Weekly Article   "EVENY MANAGER" MODI

BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has no dearth of critics in political and social circles, which is but natural in a campaign marked by warmongering on so strident a note. What is of a special curiosity, however, is the BJP's own level of acceptance of Modi as aspirant to the highest executive office even in the midst of campaigning. It is in this context that the party's old patriarch L. K. Advani's two recent comments about Modi, made at Gandhinagar while filing his nomination papers, acquire a new connotation. Advani said about Modi that though the latter was never his acolyte, he was always "a good manager of events". The other remark of Advani about Modi is in relation to Atal Behari Vajpayee, who, according to Advani, "is in an altogether different league"  

Let Indian decide Modi's fate

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group

Let Indian decide Modi's fate

The Economist magazine, which is bible to generations of English-educated Indians, has long historical ties with India. Its founder, James Wilson, businessman and former secretary to the Treasury in Britain, died in Calcutta in 1860 while drafting,

The New Story

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group

THE NEW STORY

So little is known about Narendra Modi and his views on issues that transcend the boundaries of Gujarat, and touch upon national and international affairs, that all speculation about how he'll steer policy if he is elected to the top office rests on events that are long past or opinions that could well be prejudiced.