The Lock Down Diaries (XVIII) – The Duffer Zone
These days I find myself inclining more and more to the poetic. And therefore, like Wordsworth, my heart leapt up with joy the other…
The Lockdown Diaries (XVII) — Puranikoti And The Other Side Of COVID
Social distancing actually works! It’s been more than a month since I arrived in my little village near Shimla from Delhi and my Oxymeter…
The Lock Down Diaries (XVI)- Flip Flops Do Not A Tourism Policy Make
One of the more unsavoury, man-made consequences of the pandemic has been the almost total concentration of power in the executive arm of governments….
The Lock Down Diaries (XV) – Journalism As News Laundering And Bhakti
Move over, Arnab Goswami and Sambit Patra- the putrefying corpse of Indian journalism has a new poster boy! None other than our resident, apoplectic…
The Lock Down Diaries (XIV) – Quarantined In Eden
My family and I normally “migrate” to our cottage in Puranikoti village near Shimla every year in April but couldn’t this year because of…
Transfer Of Power, IAS Style
For bureaucrats these are the best of times, and the worst. On the one hand they rule supreme with all MPs, Ministers, MLAs and…
THE LOCK DOWN DIARIES (XIII): WHAT INDIA NEEDS IS NERD IMMUNITY
Well informed that we have all become , thanks to the lock down, most of us are by now aware of the concept of…
The Lockdown Diaries (XII): Himachal’s Tourism Dilemma And The Parable Of The Third Bird
These are uncharted times for the tourism and hotel industries and most states are struggling to devise a road map for their recovery. Himachal,…
The Lockdown Diaries (XI) – The Next Pandemic Could Well Be ‘Made In India’
So narrowly focused are we on the pandemic that two environmental milestones have gone unnoticed. One, the 50th Earth Day has come and gone…
The Lockdown Diaries (X) – The Enlightening Fruits Of ‘Tapasya’
We have a lot to thank the C-virus and the lock down for. I’m not speaking here of its environmental benefits- that subject we…