View from [Greater] Kailash

  At nearly 75 years, I have for long endorsed Bob Hope's dictum: I'm not afraid of dying but I don't want to be around when it ...

I usually don't find it difficult to disagree with Mr. Amitabh Kant, the sherpa of Raisina Hill (there are no mountains in Delhi other t...

                  CHANDRAKHANI   PASS- GATEWAY TO MALANA      One of the most beautiful high altitude passes in Himachal, Chandrakhani p...

  My home cadre, Himachal Pradesh, has been witnessing an extraordinary (and ongoing) kerfuffle in its corridors of power over the last mont...

  Himalayan states like Himachal and Uttarakhand are slowly going to pieces, literally, under the onslaught of cloudbursts, flash floods, la...

Most of us seek wisdom by reading tomes by wise men and Shashi Tharoor, but once in a while, going through a book for some entertainment and...

   WATERING  HOLES AND  SILENT  HEART  ATTACKS     Watering holes are essential retreats for all species, in the real jungle or the urban on...