Dirty Linen And Clean Chits
Washing machine has been improved upon and today the clean chits come out smelling of roses, the dirt flushed into the holy Ganga and recycled under the Swachh Bharat programme.
Rahul Gandhi And Congress Must Stay Course
The naked truth is that Rahul Gandhi did not lose the 2019 polls, Congress ideology did. Messers Modi and Shah have created a New India in which there appears to be no place for what the Congress has always stood for: liberal values, secularism, inclusiveness, consensus, human rights, genuine federalism, compassion for the poor.
What Will It Take For The Himachal Forest Dept. To Wake Up ?
The explosion of trekking in forest areas and fragile mountains is getting completely out of hand and in the days to come shall pose the biggest danger to the natural environment, including its flora and fauna.
Where Will Mr Modi Take Us From Here ?
The Modi- Shah duo have single handedly replaced the idea/ideology of a humane, plural, tolerant India with an assertive, Hindu dominated, impatient, proud India which is prepared to wait another five years for the fruits of development to trickle down to it.
Confessions Of A Bookworm
Hazaribagh in the early 1960s. I was ten when I first got to know Dr. Binoy Chatterjee: I don’t know how old he was,…
TAKE A BOW, GENTLEMEN, YOU HAVE HIT ROCK BOTTOM
Even by the standards of our rapidly plummeting polity and social discourse the events of the last week have shocked all right (and left)…
Night Bus To Mandi
Most people would be surprised to learn that Himachal’s most iconic symbols are neither Preity Zingta nor Kangana Ranaut, it is the HRTC (the…
The SC Molestation Case: Changing The Narrative ?
There is a tendency in India for all powerful public figures to allege a “conspiracy” whenever they are charged with any wrong doing. The Chidambarams do so when they are enquired into in the Aircel-Maxis case, the PM when he is accused of irregularities in the Rafael deal, MJ Akbar when he is called out for giving interviews in his underwear, Kamal Nath when his aides are caught with crores of unaccounted lucre. The CJI has just added himself to the list.
Don’t Mix Up The Model Code With A Moral Code
What can be more ironical and hypocritical in these farcical times than the fact that a lady candidate’s allegedly khaki underwear has become the…
A Pox On All Their Houses !
The BJP, credit be given to it, is the cat which has jumped off many hot tin roofs but has always landed on its feet.