Ridiculing National Security
byThe political rhetoric and drama that followed the recent episode of a Pakistani boat that was chased inside India waters, intercepted, chased and blew…
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Can Modi Dismount The Tiger?
byThe unsavoury developments of the last few weeks bring to my mind a limerick from my school days. It goes like this: There was…
How to Dial a Right Number?
byRudyard Kipling wrote “The Ballad of East and West” more than 125 years ago, whose opening lines “East is East and West is West/And…
Ignore the protests – Do watch PK
byDo not surrender to the self styled critics who are hell bent on disrupting the screening of PK. We live in a democracy and…
A Look Back at Year 2014
byAs the year comes to an end, let’s look back at 2014 and celebrate the New Year with new aspirations and goals. Year 2014…
Pensioners – Emerging pressure group in Himachal
byShimla: Other than State government employees, who are not only the most powerful pressure group but also the biggest beneficiaries of the total government…
Theog – Kotkhai – Hatkoti – Rohru road, a grave risk to human lives
byFast turning into an high accident prone state, bad roads and not driving errors is one of the prime reasons why so many of…
Things You Can Do In Shimla On New Year’s Eve
byCome New Year’s Eve and Shimla goes a little crazy and unapologetic. Youngsters and travelers of all ages reach the city, in order to…
Reviving fortunes of the old Janta Dal – a pipedream
byBritish statesman and two-time Prime Minister Lord Palmerston in the 1860s had stated that ‘nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have…
The UBER Rape Case – Making Sense of Absurdity
byIts happened again in Delhi and probably would have been marked as just another statistic if the incident had not been connected to an…