Shashank Gupta
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New Delhi, DL, India
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Past articles by Shashank:
The damn theft and a bribe
Like fire eats fire, does one crime negate the other? Is dishonesty nothing but business management? → Read More
Shakespeare on the farm
The most villainous character can also be the wisest for he has seen both sides of the coin. → Read More
How to set a farm on fire
Quite like out of a fantasy novel two rival armies fight with the only weapon they have: fire. → Read More
The farmhand who could have made news
The story of a farmhand who could have been making news had he not been in hiding all his life. → Read More
The man who hated farming and cared for people
For those who detest their jobs here may be a strange way of being happy despite the torture. → Read More
Fathers and sons: Who the real masters in agriculture are
A young farmer wants to earn the respect of his father and will go to any extent, including trickery. → Read More
The six ways to get the best sleep
Not in the arms of a lover, your dream-sleep has contenders only on the farm. → Read More
Why sometimes the village doctor must be the witch doctor
What qualified doctors in the village practice can hardly be called medicine, it is more like witchcraft. → Read More
Silence of the jackals: How the darkness quelled the blackness in my loneliness
When you are in your mid-twenties and your loneliness is the deepest of the darkest, you run away from home for a purpose → Read More
The bully from the bridge with the ferocious hiss
In loneliness and solitude on the farm lives a silence that may be peaceful or sinister depending on who you are. → Read More
The buffalo on a bicycle that yielded home-brewed liquor
In the village, there are some professions so strange that you would not believe they are for real. → Read More
Storms and fathers: How the blazing winds are merely a DNA test
Storms can be good fun, but they can sometimes make us behave like characters out of a comic strip. → Read More
A shooting incident on the farm
Here’s what led a young atheist to hold several rounds of prayers to purify his farm. → Read More
Combining at night
Harvesting is a sunny van Gogh painting. Wait till you experience it on a cloudy night. → Read More
The land where they eat mud
A trade route invisible to most, yet thriving even in our times. → Read More
The story of the mad girl from the village who listened to no one
Every village has one. The girl who listens to nobody, but her own heart. Here’s a story of one. → Read More
Cold-blooded encounters: How snakes are more sensible than humans
Every farmer has a snake anecdote. Of one such landowner here are a few true stories with a thoughtful hiss in the tail. → Read More
The bird and the believers: How the curse of the owl fell upon me
An account of what it is to be a lover of wildlife, so close yet so far from nature. → Read More
Why farming is cruel business
A young farmer's very own Kalinga, when he wakes up to a farm strewn with disaster. → Read More
Contempt and compassion: Every village suffers it
The meaning of humanity, or the lack of it, is discovered by living in a village. → Read More