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Notwithstanding that the BJP is not my favourite political party, my family has some connections with it. I myself served with Mr J.P. Nadda, the BJP...
Seismologists have been predicting an earthquake in the Hindukush Himalayas for quite some time now, and it happened earlier this week. Ms Kangana...
Earlier this month, Delhi University professor G.N Saibaba, who suffers from a 90 per cent physical disability, was acquitted by the High Court of...
Ensconced in my tiny village near Mashobra in the Shimla hills in the summers, I feel like Raja Hari Singh Katoch of Kangra when he was besieged in...
Now that Woman's Day has been commemorated suitably — by Ms Ambani coiling the GDP of Pakistan around her shapely neck at Jamnagar, and the Didi...
Even as I write this piece, a lion-lioness pair from a national park in Tripura is going through a severe identity crisis: named Akbar and Sita...
It should come as no surprise that, under the influence of our latest soulmate Israel, Raisina Hill has now become our version of Mount Sinai, from...
It should come as no surprise that, under the influence of our latest soulmate Israel, Raisina Hill has now become our version of Mount Sinai, from...
I'm finding that, as I get along in years, I'm becoming more and more of a contrarian, preferring to don the mantle of an advocatus diaboli than an...
Notwithstanding the sustained efforts of our neo-colonial rulers to "decolonise" our mental spaces, some vestiges of it remain. Have you noticed how,...
There could be no better – if that is indeed the right word – indication of the progressive decay of the ethos of our civil services than a...
There could be no better — if that is indeed the right word — indication of the progressive decay of the ethos of our civil services than a...
But one has to admit that he fully deserves his pre-eminent position for his sheer gall and inventiveness, and the ability to smoothly sail over...
The other day I came across these haunting lines by the poet Rumi: There is the promise of (for want of a better word) immortality here, and this set...
Things are not working out yet—for either the INDIA bloc or the Indian National Congress. Current trends and public mood—at least in the media and...
Amidst the ongoing cacophony of news and deep fake news, claims and counter claims, dissemination and dissembling, it is becoming increasingly...
Amidst the ongoing cacophony of news and deep fake news, claims and counterclaims, dissemination and dissembling, it is becoming increasingly...
It's not unusual to do a post-mortem after a massacre, and so the forensics have begun after the electoral carnage of 3 December. The hindsight...
Animals have always featured prominently in Indian culture and mythology, and have added immensely to their richness and mystique. Garuda is the loyal...
If you’ve been a keen observer of the public discourse in India, you are probably immune to the bizarre and outlandish statements made by the...
If you've been a keen observer of public discourse in India, as I have been for some years now, you are probably immune to the bizarre and outlandish...
In my blog last fortnight I had opined that what Israel and the USA were doing in tandem in Gaza was a war crime. Since then, the criminality has only...
I come from Kanpur in UP. In the immortal words of Bill Bryson: someone had to. Though why it had to be me I can't understand. But it could have been...
As modern day war criminals go, you could be forgiven for thinking that it would be difficult to beat the Netanyahu-Biden duo. The former has...
The current flavour of the season is Census, not to be confused with Consensus, which is a con job on a census, as witnessed recently in the DD (Delhi...
I should have listened to Mintu, 10 years my senior, way back in 1973. If I had, I wouldn’t be living in a village near Mashobra, waiting with bated...
Some of us may recall that revolutionary doctrine enunciated by one of India’s leading economists, Mr Amit Shah, a couple of years ago, viz. that...
I really don’t have much to do in my Himachal village these days, other than watch things sliding down the slopes — roads, houses, trees, mountain...