Educating Sita
Our culture is under unending siege, hastened in the last 200 years or so, especially after that fellow Macaulay let loose the English language…
A Tale Of Two Cities (Apologies to Charles Dickens)
Simla, the aging-yet-growing ‘Queen of Hill Stations’ & ‘Divine Dharamshala’ – Two smart cities oscillating between “the age of wisdom and the age of foolishness”,
The Training of a Forest Guard
The Himachal Cabinet in its wisdom has decided to recruit 465 forest guards (The Tribune, 12 May 2016). In the past too, the HP…
Of FORESTS and FIRE
New-age threat of devastating forest fires, it is not just the Chir pine forests but most broadleaved and oak forest (and along with the wildlife they harbor) that are now highly vulnerable to turn quickly to ash.
In The Goodly Times of Drought……..
Panchayat pradhans and other elected businessmen have diversified into making the most of a good Drought
Is Nationalism a Real Thing?
With globalization the idea of ‘nation’ becomes pretty ‘liquid’. Dual passports are an example. What nationality are Green Card holders?
THE FLORA on MY BALCONY at 5,500’
It is the winter of 2015-16. Or is it? The firewood we got chopped for the bukhari for this winter has remained largely unused….
ALIEN INVADERS – IV
THE MEXICAN DEVIL The Mexican monopoly on exporting invasive alien species continues. This one, popularly known as the Mexican Devil or the Crofton weed,…
Alien Invaders III
Here is another one from Mexico! It seems that Mexico’s national pastime is to surreptitiously send humans across their border into the US and…
Alien Invaders – II
This one, it is said, came in a pot as an ornamental plant for the Calcutta Botanical garden in 1809. No sooner had the…