View from [Greater] Kailash

  [ A slightly shorter version of this blog was published in THE TRIBUNE on 27.09.2026 under the heading HOW LOOPHOLES ARE CONVERTING A STAT...

  All the signs of the Second Coming, as foretold in the Bible, are visible: wars and conflicts, natural disasters, lawlessness and moral de...

  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 ...

  I'm happy to convey that my latest, eighth, book has been released yesterday by Authors Upfront/ Paranjoy. It is a book I always wante...

  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 p...

  The joint family was one of the better constituents and binding blocks of Indian society for centuries. Consisting of three or four genera...

  READING  THE  TEA  LEAVES. For most of us tea is the cuppa that wakes us up in the morning, for the cognoscenti it is a career, but for th...