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Saturday, 9 May 2026

BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN

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  Since these are tricky times, let us begin this week with a trick question: what do the following events have in common with each other ? ...
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Saturday, 25 April 2026

THE " BATTLE OF CIVILISATIONS" IS ONE BETWEEN ALGEBRA AND HAMBURGERS

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  Civilisations are created by poets, writers, painters, architects, but are destroyed by politicians and their armies. We would do well to ...
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Thursday, 16 April 2026

POLYTICKS, DEMOCKRAZY AND MUMBOJUMBO---BABUS, MANTRIS & NETAS (UNMAKING) OUR NATION.

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  This book of mine, containing political satire and lampooning our social peccadillos and pretences, was first published by PIPPA RAN BOOKS...
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Sunday, 12 April 2026

SHOULD I PROTECT MY PERSONALITY OR INSURE MY LEGS ?

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 I've been feeling a bit low these last few months, enveloped in a feeling of missing out on something, what the acronym generation woul...
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Friday, 3 April 2026

BOOK REVIEW. JUDGING THE JUDGES.

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                                                                              [Published by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. 2025]   Before we get in...
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Sunday, 29 March 2026

WARS, ECOCIDE AND THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK.

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  It's a disturbing sign of the times that the global levers of power today are controlled by genocidal murderers, sex offenders, megalo...
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Friday, 20 March 2026

LOW ON OIL, BUT WE HAVE PLENTY OF GAS !

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  I can't be sure, but I'm fairly positive that the most Googled word this fortnight was "gas", thanks to the Gulf conflic...
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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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