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Thursday, 18 May 2017

HORSES FOR COURSES .

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  Horses and the IAS have never been on the same page or the same paddock, as it were. Their relationship is somewhat like that of Donald ...
Friday, 12 May 2017

LESSONS FROM A JUDICIAL DEADLOCK

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                                                 The face-off between Justice Karnan and the Supreme Court has rapidly deteriorated fr...
Friday, 5 May 2017

CLUELESS BBC LOCKS HORNS WITH RHINOS

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            Britain exterminated all its wildlife a hundred years ago, it still slaughters six million pheasants every year for “Sport...
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Friday, 28 April 2017

A BRIEF GUIDE TO OFFICIAL DINNERS.

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                          The IAS, unlike its progenitor the ICS, will bequeath few memories other than those of Chief Secretaries ge...
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Saturday, 15 April 2017

RETURN OF THE " ANIMAL SPIRITS" .

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  Most folks would recollect that a few years back Dr. Manmohan Singh, while addressing a gaggle of industrialists, had bemoaned the fact ...
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Saturday, 8 April 2017

STOP LEGITIMIZING VIGILANTISM AND CULTURAL CLEANSING

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   Dadri is back with us. Earlier this week a group of "gau rakshaks" stopped a truck carrying cows in Alwar ( Rajasthan), beat ...
Monday, 3 April 2017

DON'T WRITE OFF KEJRIWAL JUST YET.

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   [ This piece was published in the New Indian Express on 3/4/2017 ]       The knives are out for Arvind Kejriwal and his AAP- if you f...
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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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