The Missing Fundamental Right
The Indian Constitution gives us six Fundamental Rights: right to Equality, right to Freedom, right against Exploitation, right to Freedom of Religion, Cultural and…
Avay Shukla retired from the Indian Administrative Service in December 2010. He is a keen environmentalist and loves the mountains. He divides his time between Delhi and his cottage in a small village above Shimla. He used to play golf at one time but has now run out of balls. He blogs at http://avayshukla.blogspot.in/
The Indian Constitution gives us six Fundamental Rights: right to Equality, right to Freedom, right against Exploitation, right to Freedom of Religion, Cultural and…
“Slumdog millionaires”
Even the most rabid of Mr. Modi’s detractors would not grudge him one thing: that he is an orator par excellence with an acute…
I seem to have developed a fascination for Economics this autumn, or at least for what passes for Economics in the land of the…
The week before last I had written an article for the New Indian Express disagreeing with the government’s move to introduce lateral induction in…
Remember, you can pull on a string but you can’t push on it!
Unlike the Congress, the BJP does its homework thoroughly. It has realised that its development plank of 2014 will not work because it has collapsed under the weight of too many hasty “reforms”
Notwithstanding the hundreds of babies who die every year in hospitals of the Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad variety, rates of both infant and maternal mortality…
In our days there was never any doubt when a woman said “No.” In fact she rarely had to articulate these dreaded words: the…
Taking a break from the bedlam and super heated sauna that is Delhi these days, I have just returned from ten tranquil days spent…