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Sunday, 15 June 2025

THOUGHTS ON JIHADS, CIGARETTES AND THE PERFECT PLEASURE.

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Baba Ramdev's recent video about starting a "sherbet jihad" against (presumably) the iconic Rooh Afza put me in mind of anothe...
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Friday, 6 June 2025

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE NEW NORMAL ?

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India, we are told, has now entered a "New Normal" after that little "menage a trois" with Pakistan and China in the fir...
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Wednesday, 28 May 2025

FAREWELL PARTIES AND ASHOK KHEMKA'S MOVING EXPERIENCES

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The redoubtable Ashok Khemka, an urban legend from the Jat-land of Haryana, retired from the IAS on the 30th of last month. He had had his b...
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Friday, 23 May 2025

INTERVIEW WITH KARAN THAPAR

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  Press Release & Video: India is becoming a nation of duffers and we’re evolving back to the neanderthal stage: Avay Shukla, Author ‘Ho...
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Saturday, 17 May 2025

OUR SOLDIERS WON THE WAR FOR US - BUT POLITICS AND THE MEDIA HAVE UNDONE THEIR GOOD WORK

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  Going beyond the nit picking about the number of "assets" lost by India and Pakistan, it is now clear that we have inflicted sig...
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Sunday, 11 May 2025

WHY THE WORLD NEEDS TO DECLARE ECOCIDE AN INTERNATIONAL CRIME

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First, the context. It's not working. The planet is headed for  armageddon in this century itself if we continue with our present unsust...
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Friday, 2 May 2025

THE MYSTERIES OF SRIKHAND MAHADEV

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  THE  MYSTERIES  OF  SRIKHAND  MAHADEV.                                                   [ SRIKHAND  MAHADEV  PEAK . Photo Sanjeeva Pandey...
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Avay Shukla
The author retired from the IAS in December 2010. A keen environmentalist and trekker he writes for various publications and websites on the environment, governance and social issues. He has published seven books: THE TRAILS LESS TRAVELLED (2015), THE SPECTER OF CHOOR DHAR (2019), POLYTICKS, DEMOCRAZY AND MUMBO-JUMB0 (2020), THE WASTED YEARS (2021), THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER'S DOG AND OTHER COLLEAGUES (2023), DISAPPEARING DEMOCRACY-DISMANTLING OF A NATION (2024) and the most recent one, HOLY COWS AND LOOSE CANNONS (2025).He divides his time between Delhi and his cottage in a small village above Shimla.
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