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Even as global tourism continues its relentless growth (1.52 billion in 2025 and growing at 4 per cent per annum), opposition to its environmental,...
The more discerning among my readers would have noticed that in India, the flavours of the season change with, well, the season. In July, it was the...
Connoisseurs of humour know that all genuine humour is underlaid with wisdom, which provides the actual punch. And so it was that, when I read the...
The Chief Justice of India refused to meet the Leader of the Opposition on the 12th of this month and hear his grievances, even though one of his...
As I find it a little more difficult to get out of bed each succeeding autumn morning, my mind (what’s left of it, that is) inevitably wanders to...
In response to a recent blog of mine about unregulated construction in Himachal, a discerning reader commented that he had done an online search for...
All the signs of the Second Coming, as foretold in the Bible, are visible: wars and conflicts, natural disasters, lawlessness and the moral decay of...
Only a fool learns from his own mistakes, said Otto von Bismarck, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others. It is now time for policymakers in...
One doesn't eat out often, partly because I haven't yet received my last six DA instalments, but mainly because I can never find parking in...
The joint family was one of the better constituents and binding blocks of Indian society for centuries. Consisting of three or four generations living...
The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, for all to see except perhaps the acolytes of the NDA government. India's falling...
Now that we have an idea of what Mr Modi looks like at the stroke of the midnight hour, and have also learnt how to install a teleprompter on a mobile...
It's not working. These days, everybody and his grandfather wants to live to be a hundred, even if it's in a hospital ICU. And if we...
Any game, or contract, is based on, and presupposes, mutually accepted rules which govern and bind the participants. Democracy is one such contract,...
It was indeed a wise man who said judges should shun the spotlight and let their judgments do the talking. But that was before the era of the sound...
I am a happy man these days, or at least as happy as anyone can be in this Ram Rajya, where even 1,600 CCTVs and 400 security guards could not prevent...
T.S. Eliot dubbed April 'the cruellest month' in one of his poems. I am sure he had his reasons for doing so, but it does reveal that he was...
Biodiversity is perhaps the most unacknowledged component of the natural environment, and the attention of policy-makers rarely goes beyond trees and...
Delhi's chatterati, who always need something more than just fried peanuts with their gin and tonic, are abuzz these days with the latest...
The IAS, unlike its progenitor the ICS, will bequeath few memories other than those of Chief Secretaries being voted the most corrupt by their own...
Hon'ble Chief Justice, May I, a humble member of the Blatta (Oriental) genus of cockroaches, make so bold as to express my utter stupefaction at...
It was reported by Satya Hindi news channel, and reiterated by a Congress spokesperson, that after the declaration of the West Bengal Assembly...
Since these are tricky times, let us begin this week with a trick question: what do the following events have in common with each other? The huge, and...
Civilisations are created by poets, writers, painters, architects, but are destroyed by politicians and their armies. We would do well to remember...
Title: A Controversial Judge Author: Ayaskanta Das & Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Publisher: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Year of publication: 2025 Before...
It's a disturbing sign of the times that the global levers of power today are controlled by genocidal murderers, sex offenders, megalomaniacs,...
I can't be sure, but I'm fairly positive that the most Googled word this fortnight was 'gas', thanks to the Gulf conflict and the...
The smell of censorship hangs heavy over Delhi these days, enveloping two books — one for perhaps containing official secrets, the other for calling...
I've said it before and I'll say it again for the doubtful benefit of this hearing-impaired government — putting old wine in new bottles...
Epstein who? Emails when? Meetings where? Every era produces its own prophets, who inscribe their wisdom on our digital walls; the year 1 AE (After...
Preservation and protection of the natural environment has never been a priority in our annual Budgets; ALL Finance Ministers have taken it for...
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