Shekhar Gupta ✓
@ShekharGupta · joined 18 Jun 2014
Founder, ThePrint. Politics, governance, non-hyphenated journalism. And typos are my fingerprints.
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1. An investigation by The Indian Express has revealed that 2 of the 3 Election Commissioners — Sukhbir Singh Sandhu & Vivek Joshi — raised 14 objections to some aspects of the SIR over a period of 10 months. #CutTheClutter looks at what the story reveals, what it means & what it
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Congratulations @mirabai_chanu …you are a true champion
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Thank you everyone for your love and support. Winning silver medal at the Asian Games 2026 is really a special moment for me. https://t.co/W1QwOSroxg
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1. Somaliland is a tiny ‘country’ recognised at the moment only by Israel. Its President is in the US & is likely to address a rally near the UNGA venue, making a pitch to the world for recognition. Somaliland also has a deal with UAE on the strategically important Berbera Port.
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Thank you Harsh…twice over…because you read the political column by @virsanghvi also on ThePrint!
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My favourite media diet:
✍️ Favourite columnists: @virsanghvi , @ShekharGupta
📺 Favourite news channels: @IndiaToday, @WIONews
📰 Favourite newspapers: @timesofindia, @EconomicTimes
📖 Favourite magazines: @IndiaToday, @TIME
𝕏 Favourite on X: @ValaAfshar @anandmahindra
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A fantastic first gold for India in this Asiad… so dominant Indian women’s cricket team @BCCIWomen …
World beaters…
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This is also called a Left correction…
Mark Carney is showing the centre still has a place in an age of extremes
Dhiraj Nayyar @nayyardhiraj, Chief Economist, Vedanta writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Punjab rail track blast: NIA seeks Interpol help to find handler who ‘funded’ module behind botched attack
Mayank Kumar @mayankreports reports for ThePrint
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The grievance of ’65 war hero Alfred Cooke. Low ammo while hunting Sabres & an omission in citation
Snehesh Alex Philip @sneheshphilip reports
#ThePrintDefence
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The knitwear cluster in Tiruppur acquires its raw materials at such a low cost, but the central question is who ultimately pays for it.
Watch #Economix with ThePrint Consulting Editor (Economics) Bidisha Bhattacharya @Bidishabh
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Our judicial system…
Jab der bhi andher hai…
36 yrs after Haryana woman took Indian Oil to court, SC rules she was denied job because of gender
Alfreza Ahmed, intern at ThePrint, reports
#ThePrintLaw
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‘I knew that this was the end of my career. I was still in my twenties, and I had to start a new career,’ NSA Ajit Doval, speaking at IIT Roorkee convocation, recalls an incident from the early days of his career.
Watch #ThePrintUncut
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How I would like Indians to discover Poland—pierogi, Chopin, friendship…
Piotr Antoni Świtalski @PLinIndia, Head of Mission, Embassy of Poland in New Delhi, writes…
#DiplomaticCable #ThePrintOpinion
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ED pegs TTD adulterated ghee scam at Rs 230 cr, food firm promoter held on money laundering charge
Deepika Amirapu @DeepikaAmirapu reports for ThePrint
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NSUI rebellion in DUSU polls not the first. It was a test of the Kanhaiya Kumar experiment
Esha Mishra @esha__mishra reports
#ThePrintPolitics
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Melting glaciers of the Alps are revealing clues to India’s most mysterious plane crash, which claimed the lives of all 117 people on board, including Homi Bhabha, architect of India’s nuclear programme…
@soumya_pillai from ThePrint science team
explains
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China has launched a satellite that gives it a sweeping view of other satellites in space.
Shijian-31 is flying in an unusual orbit that takes it above the geostationary belt, where some of the world’s most important communication, weather and navigation satellites operate.
The
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China’s new spy satellite watches every satellite from the mother-of-all orbit—GSAT, NavIC, Starlink
Soumya Pillai @soumya_pillai reports
#ThePrintExclusive
https://t.co/15CW8XC4GE
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India needs more buildings—and a fresh look at land acquisition financing.
Watch this column for ThePrint by Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah @bhargavizaveri, CEO of @theprofesseer
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Governance is changing. Why elected leaders must keep learning'
Shaina NC @ShainaNC, national secretary and spokesperson of the Shiv Sena, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Last week, CIA declassified 71 President's Daily Briefs (PDBs) revealing what American leaders were told about Osama Bin Laden before 9/11 attacks…
Bantirani Patro @bantirani_patro explains what these files say about Osama’s quest for ‘dirty bomb’
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200 startups, 1 lakh technicians, $12 billion investment…
@AshwiniVaishnaw lays out Semicon 2.0 roadmap…
Vrinda Tulsian @vrinda_tulsian reports for ThePrint
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Navodaya schools row: SC nudges Tamil Nadu to identify land, discuss Hindi concerns with Centre
Bhadra Sinha @BhadraSinha reports
#ThePrintLaw
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Lord Ganesha is a forgiving god with much sense of humour..
But this Tamil Nadu star culture is going a bit nuts…
BJP fumes over Vijay-themed Ganpati idols in Tamil Nadu, calls them insult to Hindu sentiment
Shweta Tripathi @Shweta_journo reports
#ThePrintPolitics
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Shivani Chauhan’s biker identity was a secret. Even her AAP boss Atishi didn’t know
Sagrika Kissu
@SagrikaKissu
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Photos: Anisha Nehra
#ThePrintGroundReport
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Odisha judicial officer with autistic son relieved despite withdrawing resignation.
HC reinstates her
Ruchi Bhattar @ruchichic reports
#ThePrintLaw
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Chandrayaan-1 helped scientists find a ‘lost’ lunar basin more than 4 billion years old
Akanksha Mishra @Akanksha_mish27 reports
#ThePrintFeature
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India’s defence atmanirbharta needs a dose of realism — and a lot more drones, writes TN Ninan. A thread:
1. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, laid out 3 maxims in a recent speech: “The nation that cannot produce what it needs is not truly secure. The nation that
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'Centre’s ‘permanent’ solution to Gorkhaland is not so simple. Accords & discords for 38 yrs'
Sanjeev Chopra @ChopraSanjeev, former IAS officer, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
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Against accounts of the same size
84 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 1M–10M follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.
Median views11 426this account14 648median for 1M–10M
Reach, %0.45%this account0.74%median for 1M–10M
Engagement, %0.53%this account0.70%median for 1M–10M
| Metric | This account | Median for 1M–10M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 11 426 | 14 648 | 0.78× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 0.45% | 0.74% | 0.61× |
| Engagement rate | 0.53% | 0.70% | 0.75× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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36.4K21 Sep
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35K22 Sep
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19K24 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.22%20 Sep
0.13%
0.50%
0.12%
0.18%21 Sep
0.70%
0.79%
0.87%22 Sep
0.51%
0.19%
0.69%23 Sep
6.19%
0.36%
0.61%24 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 1M–10M accounts is 0.70%.
What the audience does
Likes82.2%7 904 in total
Reposts8.7%833 in total
Replies3.9%379 in total
Quotes0.9%84 in total
Bookmarks4.4%421 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
Followers by day
23 Sep
Daily snapshots since 23 Sep 2026; the dashed line is the starting count.
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