Where Have All The Dragon-Flies Gone ?
Biodiversity is perhaps the most unacknowledged component of the natural environment, and the attention of policy makers rarely goes beyond trees and animals, if…
Book Review – Indonesia, The Beautiful Archipelago
There are two types of diplomats, as Mani Shankar Aiyar points out in the review appended to the book. The first are the wolf…
Gymkhana Club And The Power Of Myths
Delhi’s chatterati, who always need something more than just fried peanuts with their gin and tonic, are abuzz these days with the latest canapes:…
A Brief Guide To Official Dinners
The IAS, unlike its progenitor the ICS, will bequeath few memories other than those of Chief Secretaries being voted the most corrupt by their…
An Apology May Be In Order, Your Lordship
Hon’ble Chief Justice, May I, a humble member of the Blatta (Oriental) genus of cockroaches, make so bold as to express my utter stupefaction…
‘Tiger Abhi Zinda Hai !’ — But Elections Are In The ICU
[It was reported by the Satya Hindi news channel, and reiterated by a Congress spokesperson, that after the declaration of the West Bengal results,…
Better To Reign In Hell Than To Serve In Heaven
Since these are tricky times, let us begin this week with a trick question: what do the following events have in common with each…
The ‘Battle Of Civilisations’ Is One Between Algebra And Hamburgers
Civilisations are created by poets, writers, painters, architects, but are destroyed by politicians and their armies. We would do well to remember this truth…
Polytics, Demockrazy & Mumbo-Jumbo – Babus, Mantris & Netas (Unmaking) Our Nation
This book of mine, containing political satire and lampooning our social peccadillos and pretences, was first published by PIPPA RAN BOOKS AND MEDIA…
Should I Protect My Personality Or Insure My Legs ?
I’ve been feeling a bit low these last few months, enveloped in a feeling of missing out on something, what the acronym generation would…