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Friday, 30 October 2020

THE PURANIKOTI DIARIES : EAST OF MASHOBRA

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   Many years ago, when the bad moon of superannuation was beginning to edge worryingly above the horizon, I decided to improve my chances o...
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Saturday, 24 October 2020

LIGHT - OR GARBAGE ?- AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

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   The 9 km long Atal Tunnel below the Rohtang pass has been inaugurated, the foundation stone laid by Mrs. Sonia Gandhi ten years back has ...
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Saturday, 17 October 2020

TRPs, CORPORATES, AND MORAL BANKRUPTCY

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    Even for a country which is perpetually in outrage mode, the brouhaha over the TRP scandal takes the cake if not the bakery, as a collea...
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Saturday, 10 October 2020

IF HATHRAS DOESN'T MAKE US THINK AGAIN, THEN NOTHING WILL

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    The voters of this country (or at least 37% of them) have given Mr. Modi and his party a long rope. They have kept the faith and have ev...
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Saturday, 3 October 2020

THE FIVE RUPEE NOTE

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    Most people think that an inheritance and a legacy are the same thing. In a way they perhaps are because they are bequeathed to us by ou...
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Saturday, 26 September 2020

DEMOLITION DERBY

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 I've never believed in the adage that learning is a continuous process. According to cognitive experts, a human being learns 80% of eve...
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Saturday, 19 September 2020

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           LAW NEEDED TO COMPENSATE VICTIMS OF WRONGFUL ARRESTS.   Dr. Kafeel Khan, of the Gorakhpur tragedy fame a couple of years ago ...
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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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