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Saturday, 30 September 2017

FIFTY SHADES OF "NO" ?

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     In our days there was never any doubt when a woman said " No." In fact she rarely had to articulate these dreaded words: t...
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Saturday, 23 September 2017

LIFE BEYOND PRIME TIME NEWS

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    Taking a break from the bedlam and super heated sauna that is Delhi these days, I have just returned from ten tranquil days spent in my...
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Thursday, 21 September 2017

OSCAR WILDE AND INDIA'S GODMEN

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  [ This piece was published, with a few minor changes, in the New Indian Express on 20.09.2017 ]                            Frankl...
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Saturday, 16 September 2017

REST HOUSE CHRONICLES--III

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    Rest Houses can occasionally offer bizarre experiences, often educative but always interesting. Sometime in 1996-97 I was consigned t...
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Thursday, 14 September 2017

BANKRUPTCY CODE IS AN IMPEDIMENT FOR HOME BUYERS

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            [ This article was published in the New Indian Express on 5.9.2017 under the title: BUILDING APARTMENTS IN THE AIR ]      ...
Saturday, 2 September 2017

REST HOUSE CHRONICLES --II

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    Like all buildings that have  hoary pasts , Rest Houses too have all kinds of stories attached to them and this gives them a mystique...
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Saturday, 26 August 2017

REST HOUSE CHRONICLES--1

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    As far as I know, Himachal has one of the finest network of government rest-houses in the country: the Forest Deptt. has about 350 and...
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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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