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Saturday, 28 December 2019

THE LONG AND SHORT OF THE HAIRCUT.

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   For somebody who has passed the life expectancy age in India I have a middling cluster of hair fallicles on my head. Nothing, of cours...
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Saturday, 21 December 2019

A WEEK OF SHAME BUT MOMENTS TO BE PROUD OF.

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   Our judiciary had an opportunity to redeem its somewhat dubious recent record this last week, but as the saying goes it never misses a...
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Sunday, 15 December 2019

CUSTODIAL KILLINGS ARE AN ALIBI FOR FAILURE OF GOVERNANCE.

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                 The early morning execution of four rape suspects in Hyderabad on the 6th of December this year was actually a custodia...
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Saturday, 30 November 2019

THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE "FAIT ACCOMPLI."

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                          [ This piece was published in The Wire on 28. 11.2019 ]    It takes two to tango, but when the executive and ...
Saturday, 16 November 2019

SILENCE IS NOT CONSENT, INEQUITY IS NOT CLOSURE.

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   The day justice is postulated on the same premise as elections- viz. that the preferences of the majority must prevail- is the day tha...
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Sunday, 10 November 2019

PUT THE "ECO" BACK INTO ECONOMICS. [ II ]

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                            [ The concluding and second part of two blogs on this subject ]     Sloth, indulgence and hedonism have b...
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Sunday, 3 November 2019

M. K. KAW-- THE LAST OF A VANISHING BREED.

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                                       M. K. KAW-- THE LAST OF A VANISHING BREED.    Last week another tenuous link to a glorious pa...
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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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