Delhi Belly: Stop Messing With Shimla’s Green Belt
byIt really is astonishing (but not surprising) that fifteen years after the 17 green belts in Shimla were notified as no-construction zones, their necessity…
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DHAKKA STARTS
byGiven the disproportionate numbers of dhakka starts amongst our promising demographic dividend, it is only natural that repeated and regular ‘capacity building’ and ‘skilling’ and exposure visits abroad for our periodically relapsing netas, big and small, the elite bureaucracy and now even judges, be organised at public expense.
Delhi Belly: Its Time To Compensate Citizens For Wrongful Arrests
byThe arrest and release on bail of Air Chief Marshal (Retd.) SP Tyagi last week after 18 days of imprisonment highlights a disturbing trend…
Fight Against Corruption & Black Money – Next Step?
by“Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self defence, it is patriotism”- Joe Bidden Vice President of USA. O8 November 2016 will be…
Rahul Gandhi’s Borrowed Hurrah?
byFinally Rahul Gandhi’s earth shattering disclosures are out. Unfortunately one did not see any broken window panes or cracks in the mother earth nor…
Indian Army Chief Selection Is A Government Prerogative
byThe principle of seniority is not sacrosanct and rightly so
At The End Of The Day
byFrom Washington to Syria to India to the South East and the Pacific…..speeches invariably turn ominously dark, full of threats and vicious intolerance barely disguised.
It is how Good wishes for Evil to be perceived, to stand up and be counted.
It is the overture to the unleashing of Pralay.
Unique High Altitude Healers – Heun Shelih
byPeople visiting high altitude water bodies for religious yatras and nomadic shepherds can be seen kissing the meadows while collecting this lichen; it finds prized application in the treatment of skin diseases, especially for burn scars.
Has The Opposition Lost The Plot – And The 2019 Election ?
byFakirs may be closer to God but they do not make ideal Prime Ministers, in fact they pose a danger as leaders of nations. A man who has no stakes has no commitments for, as Bob Dylan said, “if you ain’t got nothing you got nothing to lose.”
Padmakh (Pajja) – An amazing native autumn flowering tree from Shimla Hills
byPajja is a deciduous tree from the rose family (Rosaceae) with range extending in the Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh in north-west India to Nepal in Central Himalayas, to Southwest China, Burma and Thailand.