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Thursday, 13 August 2026

A BROKEN IMAGE, A SQUANDERED LEGACY.

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The writing has been on the wall for quite some time, for all to see except perhaps the acolytes of the NDA government. India's falling ...
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Friday, 7 August 2026

JANTAR MANTAR AND THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT

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  Now that we have an idea of what Mr. Modi looks like at the stroke of the midnight hour, and have also learnt how to install a teleprompte...
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Saturday, 1 August 2026

TIME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS LONGEVITY FAD

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  It's not working. These days everybody and his grandfather wants to live to be a hundred, even if it's in a hospital ICU. And if w...
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Friday, 24 July 2026

THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED - WILL THE GAME CHANGE TOO ?

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  Any game, or contract, is based on and pre-supposes mutually accepted rules which govern, and bind, the participants. Democracy is one suc...
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Sunday, 19 July 2026

THE LONG, BUMPY ROAD TO SWADESHI JURISPRUDENCE

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It was  indeed a wise man who said that judges should shun the spotlight and let their judgments do the talking.   But that was before the e...
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Friday, 10 July 2026

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE PRIME TIME NEWS ?

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  I am a happy man these days, or at least as happy as anyone can be in this Ram rajya where even 1600 CTVs and 400 security guards could no...
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Saturday, 4 July 2026

THE CRUELEST MONTH

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T.S. Eliot had dubbed April as "the cruelest month" in one of his poems; I am sure he had his reasons for doing so, but it does re...
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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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