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Thursday, 26 October 2023

WORLD LEADERS AND WAR CRIMINALS

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    As modern day war criminals go, you could be forgiven for thinking that it would be difficult to beat the Netanyahu- Biden duo. The form...
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Friday, 20 October 2023

MONKEYING AROUND WITH THE CENSUS, CONSENSUS AND CON-SENSUS.

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 The current flavour of the season is Census, not to be confused with Consensus, which is a con job on a census, as witnessed recently in th...
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Friday, 13 October 2023

DHAN KI BAAT

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  I should have listened to Mintu, ten years my senior, way back in 1973. If I had, I wouldn't be living in a village near Mashobra, wai...
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Friday, 6 October 2023

REFLECTIONS ON THE GENIUS OF THE "PAKODA" ECONOMY

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 Some of us may recall that revolutionary doctrine enunciated by one of India's leading economists, Mr. Amit Shah, a couple of years ago...
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Saturday, 30 September 2023

THE G-20 CONCLAVE-- CONVENTION, PAGEANT OR CHARADE ?

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   The G-20 (or G-18+ Lotus) Circus has left town, or, in the more melodious words of The Seekers, the carnival is over. But where there was...
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Friday, 15 September 2023

NOTHING OFFICIAL ABOUT IT !

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                                                   Availaable on Amazon at    <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9394887385>               Publ...
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Tuesday, 12 September 2023

CHAR DHAM OF THE GREAT HIMALAYAN NATIONAL PARK (III)-- THE JIVA NAL

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 22nd September, 2023            CHAR DHAM OF THE GREAT HIMALAYAN NATIONAL PARK [ III ]                                                   ...
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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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