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Thursday, 21 December 2017

THE MALLYA EXTRADITION- EASIER SAID THAN DONE.

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    [ This piece was published in The New Indian Express on 20.12.2017, with some minor changes, under the heading BRINGING BACK MALLYA NO...
Monday, 18 December 2017

THE GUJARAT ELECTIONS : PAPPU PASS HO GAYA !

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    At times there's more glory in defeat than in victory, and the results of the Gujarat elections demonstrate this. Congress may ha...
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Saturday, 9 December 2017

INDIA'S HEALTH SECTOR NEEDS MORE GOVERNMENT, NOT LESS.

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    The conventional wisdom is that the less government we have, the better. In fact, that was precisely what Mr. Modi had promised us in...
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Friday, 8 December 2017

ALLOW US TO DIE WITH DIGNITY

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         [ This article was published in the New Indian Express on 6.12.2017 ]     Responding to a PIL by the NGO Common Cause in the...
Saturday, 25 November 2017

THE MISSING FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT

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    The Indian Constitution gives us six Fundamental Rights: right to Equality, right to Freedom, right against Exploitation, right to Fr...
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Wednesday, 15 November 2017

THE LANGUAGE OF GOVERNANCE

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      In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. And then God committed one of his periodical goof-ups, the first after the o...
Saturday, 11 November 2017

ANGER MANAGEMENT , LEMMINGS AND HONEY-BADGERS.

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    Even the most rabid of Mr. Modi's detractors would not grudge him one thing: that he is an orator par excellence with an acute gr...
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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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