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Saturday, 25 January 2020

AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

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   In the millennia to come, when our history is written ( not, however, by the likes of Mr. Rakesh Sinha, MP or Mr. Dina Nath Batra), it...
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Saturday, 18 January 2020

THE YEARNING FOR LEARNING.

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[ This piece has been published in THE CITIZEN under the title THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE OF INTELLIGENCE on 19.1.2020.]    Article 51 (1) of o...
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Saturday, 11 January 2020

WHY INDIA AND ARVIND KEJRIWAL ARE ON TEST IN DELHI.

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      [ This piece was published in THE CITIZEN on 12.1.2020 and in THE WIRE  on 16.1.2020 ]        Elections to Delhi have been announ...
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Saturday, 4 January 2020

IT'S TIME FOR INDIA TO RECLAIM THE SPIRIT OF FEDERALISM.

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              [ This piece was published in THE WIRE on 3.01.2020 as " A Manifesto for reclaiming the spirit of Federalism."] ...
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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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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