Public figures like to leave a legacy that they
could be remembered by. Some of our media crooks too have legacies. Rajdeep Sardesai will forever be
remembered for his 2002 inflammatory reporting, Cash4Votes and his Madison thuggery.
Barkha Dutt too will be remembered
for her bogus reporting on 2002, Radiagate and her Kargil deceptions. Prannoy Roy will be remembered for
scams, money laundering and tax evasions. Shekhar
Gupta will be remembered most for his infamous “coup story”. SG will also
be remembered for turning Indian Express into a Congress-slave, being a Lutyens
“Dalal” and for acquiring six vast farm-houses.
Journos are not very bright people.
They are academically poor, have poor GK and exceptionally bad at anything
involving Math or history. Add to this poverty of talent and skill a mix of
spinelessness, boot-licking and you get Shekhar Gupta. Just sample the moron on
his comment about Kautilya:
I have observed SG for the last 15 years and more
so since 2010 when I started writing here. I cannot recall a single article or
video from SG that I would consider to be great journalism. None, NOTHING! Like all the other names
mentioned above, SG too has built his career grovelling at the feet of Sonia and
Congress. And in the decade of the UPA,
grovelling was a very rewarding profession. For a decade or so SG has also
been a vendor to NDTV with some shows. Naturally, the corrupt usually operate
in a gang. Come elections, SG hunts as part of a threesome with Prannoy Roy and
Dorab Sopariwala. They are supposed to be “election experts” but have had
problems getting anything right for many years. This is quite a private club
that survives on each other:
Apart from being a footsie for that spy group Stratfor which he never
discloses in public, SG is also a domestic maid and “Nurse” for the Congress. The other doormat and housemaid of
Congress, Kumar Ketkar, who paraded
as a journo and is now an RS member, stated the party wouldn’t have lost 2014
so badly had they regularly read SG’s columns. This is what Ketkar stated in 2015 after the
Congress thrashing:
“If the Congress high command had read Shekhar Gupta's
National Interest column regularly, the party would not have suffered the
disaster it has. But either because of smugness or arrogance, complacence or
callousness, the party leadership, at all levels, thought that it does not
require any analysis or advice… Did the
Congress high command, or at least Rahul and flamboyant leaders like Kapil
Sibal or Jairam Ramesh or Digvijaya Singh read this column seven years ago? If
they did, how did they react? Did they even introspect or just choose to reject
the futuristic projection made by Shekhar Gupta?”
Times
have changed. SG is no more a nurse to Sonia-Congress alone. He is now called Lutyens “Dalal” or “Wheeler Dealer” by
a variety of politicians. SG is now a nurse for the Congress and also for the
Mahathugbandhan. Of course, the nurse has diversified and is also a chaperone
for SC judges. He looks after their pressers, breakfasts, their laundry and
house-keeping:
Since 2014, SG had exited IE, then joined India
Today and quit that Tabela too. He founded “The Print” along with Barkha. But it seems the rivalry between two
Congress-housemaids was a difficult relationship. So, Barkha quit and went to
build a glass-ceiling for Hillary
Clinton. But that 80000 Sq ft of glass ceiling fell on Barkha’s head and
she is now doing something for Kapil Sibal called Combine-Harvester. Congress didn’t listen to SG in the years
leading up to LS2014 so I hope they listen to his latest Dalal-effort in how to
“Cut the clutter”, unite the
ThugBandhan and challenge Modi. He released a video on how to do this (Video: 1
min excerpt):
That is just a brief clip from his entire 17-minute
video on how the Opposition should unite. SG proposes various aphrodisiacs for
the union. Love-lessons on give and take between husbands and wives. And in his
Dalali way he calls them stupid, lazy, arrogant and urges them to shun their
enmity and ego. You can find the full video in his tweet should you be so
desperate to view it:
SG laments that the MahaMilavat is unable to get
past their petty differences and present a united challenge to PM Modi. Very
sound advice I would say. He further narrates that each party in the Milavat
wants to leverage the other. SG stunningly
states that Modi won LS2014 only because of a divided Opposition. That
implies that Modi had nothing to do with the 2014 win and there was no
Modi-wave and it’s because the Opposition was stupidly disunited and allowed
Modi and BJP to win. But SG does confirm that the Left is dead and it would be
surprising if they got to double digits in LS2019.
The best assertion that SG makes out of his motherly
love for Pappu, who has run off to Wayanad, is that Modi had also contested from two seats in 2014 so nothing wrong if
Pappu also contests from two seats. This is a convenient fallacy that all
Congress housemaids are peddling. That’s why I keep saying journos are not very
bright people but often extreme morons. Modi was not only sure of winning from Vadodara, he could have won from
anywhere in Gujarat – Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Rajkot and even Miyagam Karjan. There was no question of Modi losing anywhere in
Gujarat. Modi chose Varanasi as the
second seat not out of fear, like Pappu does, but to make a symbolic statement
of becoming the PM from UP and Varanasi being a very iconic place for Hindus.
Besides that, Modi contesting from Varanasi was also to energise the whole
state of UP in favour of BJP which he managed – BJP scored 73 out of 80 seats
in the state. Dear Dalal – your business
is deception – not self-deception.
I am not sure the sociopath RG is going to energise
the Congress in the South – Wayanad is a sheer, last desperate move to merely
SURVIVE. SG calls the Milavat “Stupid”. But he is as stupid as they are in his
analysis. He talks about all their problems, their situation in life, their
status as parties, their relations with other parties, their marital
differences… blah, blah… BUT, he forgets one important thing that now matters
in politics as much as it matters in your job or anyone’s job and that is:
PERFORMANCE
But then performance doesn’t matter in media.
Bootlicking and slavery does! SG totally ignores the fact that Modi is not
merely popular for his grey hair, beard or oratory. Modi has a huge balance of PERFORMANCE in the shortest period of time
on multiple fronts. I can make a long list and in a previous post I had
compressed the five-year performance of Modi into a 5-minute montage. In the
case of power reaching 96% of
households targeted, SG grandly calls it a “failure” for Modi. Such is his pathetic life, that he refuses to
acknowledge it’s a grand success and that when the target date of March 2019
had not yet been reached. Imagine, your exam is in March 2019 but the
“University of Dalal” sends you a marksheet in January 2019 stating you have
failed with 96% marks:
Not one single member of the Milavat is talking
about their own performance and nor is SG or any other journalist. This is
where they miserably FAIL. Whether as Opposition in the Parliament or outside
it – the Congis have only rioted, flown paper-planes and screamed lie after lie
that has exposed them. Same goes for others like Mamata or Chandrababu or the
Family outfits from the South. Take Kumaraswamy
and Congress in Karnataka. Since they got married, they have nothing to show
for performance – NOTHING. All that
HDK does all day is fight with Congress, cry and cry some more. Where is their performance? And SG
thinks Modi is a huge challenge merely because Opposition is not united. The Dalal doesn’t think beyond his brokerage-seeking-brain.
The SG effect is now visible in other “Chota
Dalals” like Saba Naqvi, Vinod Sharma that are desperate to see a marriage
between RG and Kejriwal. I love that these foster parents of idiotic
politicians are so concerned about their children:
PM Modi has dramatically altered the measurables
for a political party and the govt. He has offered corruption-free leadership,
discipline and a work and character ethic that has never been seen in the past
in any govt in India. The Opposition is a corrupt gang of dynasts, nepotists,
flame-throwers, circus acrobats and snake-charmers. They are constantly busy on
which friend or relative to enrich or which scam to execute while Modi has been
busy investing in performance. It’s a lesson for not only other political
parties but moronic journos like Shekhar Gupta – INVEST IN PERFORMANCE. What
does SG do in The Print? He gets some school-girls to write crap with no
sense or logic and keeps peddling that as “others’
opinions” and shoots from their shoulders. The worst indictment of SG as a
Dalal comes from his being named in the Agusta
chopper scam. He is still trying Surf excel to wash off this stain:
SG whines for the demise of Jet Airways. But he hasn’t written one article on why Jet went
downhill. Bad decisions, political
tinkering and consistent financial indiscipline. SG doesn’t acknowledge Jet’s
lack of financial PERFORMANCE. Jet is a business and may return in some avatar
again. What about the credibility of MSM
and his own? SG has peddled fake news like Smriti Irani wants to track and spy on media. SG even peddled the
most moronic claim that I&B minister Rathore
had “secretly” floated a public tender to spy on media. What kind of idiot would think someone would
float a public tender “secretly” for a spy operation? ONLY
Dalal SG!
Then, SG peddled yet another fake news about polio-vaccines being in severe
shortage. A man with no character, no ethics, no principles sermonises everyone
else. SG watched like a rodent peeping from a slightly open manhole when Smita Prakash was called a “pliable journalist” for her interview
with PM Modi. One should watch the suck-up, foot-licking interview SG did with
Sonia sometime in 2004. You can be forgiven for thinking Sonia was playing with
her pet dog.
The final nail on SG’s bald head has now come in
the form of Sadhvi Pragya being
nominated as a candidate from Bhopal against Hindu-hater Digvijaya Singh. SG is simply too stupefied and stunned to respond
to this move by BJP. He knows his darling Congress candidate has been FOXED. SG
put up a meek article, again through one of his school-girl writers, on the
charge-sheet against the Sadhvi but nothing that isn’t already known for ages
from the concocted cases. The court has clearly stated the charge-sheet did not
make out a prima facie case.
In reality, those school-girls he employs to write
are being dictated his very stupid thoughts and those poor girls write too, get
paid 990/- per article and they take the blame for SG’s stupidity. You don’t
win battles like this Shekhar. All the negatives that SG attributes to the
Thugbandhan also apply to him – stupid,
lazy, arrogant and a dinosaur-sized ego and India’s worst Dalal. You are a Dalal,
do that job well. Avoid moralising anyone or offering worthless analysis. In
particular, stop talking about Kautilya or taxation. Leave that to educated people.


















