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Saturday, 28 September 2024

HIMACHAL SHOULD REGULATE TREKKING TO MAKE IT SAFE AND ECO-FRIENDLY ( II)

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  RESTORE  THE  WILD  IN THE  WILDERNESS The Himachal Chief Minister recently announced that the state govt. has identified 50 new locations...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2024

THE UGLY FACE OF HIMACHAL

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For the last two weeks now the otherwise tranquil state of Himachal has been roiled in a vortex of Islamophobia, despicable politics, violen...
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Friday, 13 September 2024

THE UNLEARNING AND THE NEW LEARNING

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 India is going through another great Renaissance, as ordained by a gentleman whose own educational qualifications are shrouded in doubt and...
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Friday, 6 September 2024

BEAUTY AMONG THE BEASTS

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 Kangana Runout is all over the news these days like a bad rash , there's just no getting away from her interviews, statements and tweet...
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Friday, 30 August 2024

HIMACHAL SHOULD REGULATE TREKKING TO MAKE IT SAFE AND ECO-FRIENDLY [ I ]

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            TREKKING IS AN ADVENTURE SPORT AND SHOULD BE REGULATED AS ONE.  On the night of 17th July 2024,  about 120 trekkers were strande...
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Thursday, 22 August 2024

IS BENGAL PAYING TOO HIGH A PRICE FOR KEEPING THE BJP OUT ?

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 In the reasoning of most right thinking people who are alarmed at the direction in which the BJP is taking the country the primary validity...
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Thursday, 15 August 2024

ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE.

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Emile Borel, a famous French mathematician in the first half of the 20th century, had propounded the Infinite Monkey Theorem which stated th...
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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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