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Himachal has no option but to bite the financial bullet

Himachal has no option but to bite the financial bullet
11.01.2025 4

National Herald

Avay Shukla

GST-nomics: How to eat your popcorn and tax it too

GST-nomics: How to eat your popcorn and tax it too

I have little or no sympathy for those doubting Thomases who continue to question the stupendous growth of our economy — such people should be...

04.01.2025 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Two cases, two judges — a watershed moment for India

The second week of December has been a pivotal period for the Indian judiciary, a week in which it has both plumbed the depths of  ignominy, and...

21.12.2024 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Digital immortality is already here!

In his seminal and thought-provoking book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari has some very interesting observations about mankind's quest for...

14.12.2024 5

National Herald

Avay Shukla

The three trillion dollar smog

While our Supreme Leader is accepting inconsequential awards in Guyana and elsewhere (do you even know where? Clue: nowhere near Manipur) and...

23.11.2024 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Why quota within quota matters

The word reservation is like an arrow that pierces through the intellect of many without ever moving. In fact, the irony is that casteism was...

25.08.2024 1

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Justice and violence in India, bulldozer and otherwise

On 9 June 2022, three United Nations special rapporteurs wrote to the Modi government regarding our ‘bulldozer justice’. Balakrishnan...

25.08.2024 6

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Hospital Case will Either be Mamta Banerjee’s Kalinga or Her Waterloo — She can Change Course or Perish

In the reasoning of most right thinking people who are alarmed at the direction in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is taking the country the...

23.08.2024 2

The Wire

Avay Shukla

Ask and you shall receive...medals!

Emile Borel, a famous French mathematician in the first half of the 20th century, propounded the infinite monkey theorem, which stated that if a...

17.08.2024 5

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Puja Khedkar case points to the disability within

A wise man once had this piece of advice for people who talk too much and out of turn: it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect...

27.07.2024 2

National Herald

Avay Shukla

The Fine Print of the Ambani Wedding

In my 74 years I have not seen, or even heard of, a more tasteless, egotistical and pretentious wedding than the recent 24X7 televised extravaganza...

21.07.2024 10

The Wire

Avay Shukla