The Lock Down Diaries (V) – Killing Us With Kindness Or Confusion?
Long years ago when I was posted as a Deputy Commissioner in Himachal, we had a Chief Secretary who would personally pick up his…
The Lock Down Dairies (IV) – Every Dog Has His Day
Sex has been on my mind these last three weeks. Not of course as a practitioner or a voyeur of the amorous art, but…
The Lock Down Diaries (III)– Scraps Won’t Do, It’s Time For Universal Basic Income
It is time to accept that the global mayhem currently playing out has not all been created by the Coronavirus – it is a…
The Lock Down Diaries (II) – Missing Politicians And Mistaken Identities
Notwithstanding the rising corona count, most people would agree that our civil services, particularly in the districts, are doing a very fine job under…
The Lock Down Diaries (I) – Crosswords And The Stranger In The House
“Age doth not wither nor custom stale her infinite variety.” This is how Enobarbus described Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s classic, but if he had been…
Following The (Toilet) Paper Trail
So here’s your question of the week, dear reader: when an eighteen trillion dollar economy starts collapsing what do people rush to buy? If…
Redefining Patriotism In A Post COVID-19 India
In a world increasingly being taken over by a totalitarian right wing ideology (and India is very much there, along with the USA, UK,…
Social Distancing Is A Cakewalk For Us
Notwithstanding that I am an ardent admirer of Mr. Shashi Tharoor’s prose I have to jump the gun on him this week and propose…
Sermons In Stones, Lesson From Pathogens
Nature is striking back and may kill many more than the bubonic plague and the Spanish flu, primarily because of our burgeoning population and changed life styles.
WORRY ABOUT THE TRUST DEFICIT, NOT THE FISCAL DEFICIT
The country is now firmly caught in a vicious, stagflationary downward spiral. And the reason is not the fiscal deficit, that bugbear of economists,…