Wood for Dorje Tshering
All carried A piece of wood For Dorje Tshering Some carried dried loppings Others the trunk Of a middling cedar; In her tiny…
Mints for the Mind
A Review of ‘Polyticks, DeMockrazy & MumboJumbo’ by Avay Shukla I don’t really have a sweet tooth and will happily give jabelis, burfis and…
The Year No One Wanted
The Year No One Wanted This is the year no one wanted. Homes turned to prisons. Livelihoods, hated Born as gilded dreams …
The Noisiest Spring
[social_warfare buttons=”Facebook,Twitter,Whatsapp”] Past the blooming calla lilies The struggling petunias of the garden The iris flowered and gone Fleabane on stone Bergenia along…
Karma Corona
On the eve of April Fools’ Day, 2020 this is my take on how things will change when the business of the Chinese Virus…
Hill History – Book Review
A renowned historian of the Himalaya, Chetan Singh has impeccable credentials. The construct defines spaces and communities and subsequently moves to the idea of the state as it existed in the area that is today’s Himachal Pradesh.
A View of Pakistan from a Golf Course and Elsewhere
“Pakistan,” he said “Is a country without heroes. There are only two real ‘home-grown’ ones, Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Imran Khan. For others, we have either to borrow them from India and deny our shared heritage or turn to the wealthier and not necessarily desirable images from other nations.”