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Friday, 23 February 2024

LOTUS INTERRUPTUS ?

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   It should come as no surprise that, under the influence of our latest soul-mate Israel, Raisina Hill has now become our version of Mount ...
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Friday, 16 February 2024

THE UNDERBELLY OF THE FLYING MACHINE

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   I'm finding that, as I get along in years, I'm becoming more and more of a contrarian, preferring to don the mantle of an "a...
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Friday, 9 February 2024

RESIDENT WELFARE ASSOCIATIONS -- THE NEW VIGILANTES ON THE BLOCK.

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  Notwithstanding the sustained efforts of our neo-colonial rulers to "decolonise" our mental spaces, some vestiges of it remain. ...
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Friday, 2 February 2024

SHIMLA--DOOMED BY A LEGAL "TECHNICALITY"

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   When the epitaph of Shimla is written in the not too distant future, as is inevitable, it will be recorded that its death warrant was iss...
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Friday, 26 January 2024

A NEW LOW FOR THE I.A.S

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   There could be no better-if that is indeed the right word-  indication of the  progressive decay of the ethos of our civil services than ...
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Friday, 19 January 2024

OF SHANKARACHARYAS AND CAMERACHARYAS

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    This last week has established that plumbing the depths of the ridiculous and the bizarre is not only our national pastime, it is also n...
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Friday, 12 January 2024

BOOK REVIEW : THE MAN WE ALL FORGOT

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                           NOWHERE  MAN          AUTHOR- SHIVALIK BAKSHI                        216 PAGES         PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN VEER ...
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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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