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Sunday, 21 December 2025

THE INVITATION DILEMMA

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  Being a dyed in the wool (now a 'dead in the water' ) bureaucrat, I have never been the life and soul of any party. But strangely ...
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Thursday, 11 December 2025

THE INDIGO BUSINESS MODEL - IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, HONEY! [ AND A DASH OF BLACKMAIL]

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Now that the "Fasten seat belts" signs have been switched off and Indigo's schedule is beginning to return to normal, this is ...
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Sunday, 7 December 2025

THE VANDE BHARAT PARADOX

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  THE  VANDE  BHARAT  PARADOX The Vande Bharat stable of trains is the pride of the Indian railways, and deservedly so. Their coaches are st...
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Friday, 28 November 2025

THE GANG OF 272 (G-272) MAY BE A SIGN OF CONTINUING (REVERSE) EVOLUTION

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  THE GANG OF 272 (G-272) MAY BE A SIGN OF (REVERSE) EVOLUTION Mutations in any species is part of natural evolution and essential to its su...
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Friday, 21 November 2025

THIS OPPOSITION IS ALREADY DEAD, IT JUST DOESN'T KNOW IT YET.

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  The results of the just concluded Bihar elections establish that if we have an unscrupulous ruling party at the center, we have an  incomp...
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Friday, 14 November 2025

IS THE INDIAN DIASPORA GETTING A TASTE OF ITS OWN MEDICINE ?

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  Someone I know recently went to Vietnam; on a sight-seeing visit to the Da Nang bridge he came across a large group of Indian tourists, wa...
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Sunday, 9 November 2025

AI HAS ARRIVED. WHAT'S THE POINT OF GOING ON LIVING ?

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  At nearly 75 years, I have for long endorsed Bob Hope's dictum: I'm not afraid of dying but I don't want to be around when it ...
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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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