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Friday, 13 November 2026

CAN INDIA RECLAIM ITS POLICE FROM POWER, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY ?

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  Any dispassionate and objective observer of India would have surely noted the decline of India's public institutions, both constitutio...
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Saturday, 7 November 2026

THE CHANGING FACE OF GLOBAL TOURISM

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  Even as global tourism continues its relentless growth (1.52 billion in 2025 and growing at 4% per annum), the opposition to its environme...
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Friday, 30 October 2026

ERRANT THOUGHTS ON REGIME CHANGE AND PEACE BONDS

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  The more discerning among my readers would have noticed that in India the flavours of the season change with, well, the season. In July it...
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Sunday, 25 October 2026

THE G-124 LETTER HAS LET DOWN THE CIVIL SERVICES

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  Connoisseurs of humour know that all genuine humour is underlaid with wisdom, which provides the actual punch. And so it was that, when I ...
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Thursday, 15 October 2026

AN APPOINTMENT NOT GIVEN, A TRUST FORFEITED

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  The   Chief Justice of India refused to meet the Leader of the Opposition on the 12th of this month and hear his grievances, even though o...
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Sunday, 11 October 2026

THE UPSIDE OF BEING A DODO

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                              THE  UPSIDE  OF  BEING  A  DODO   As I find it a little more difficult to get out of bed each succeeding autum...
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Monday, 5 October 2026

INTERVIEW WITH KARAN THAPAR- "THE LAST SKY."

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  I was interviewed to day by Karan Thapar on my new book THE LAST SKY- COUNTDOWN FOR AN ENDANGERED PLANET. I am giving below the Youtube li...
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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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