Self-reliant Cooperatives Needed For Sustainable Mountain Development
bySustainable mountain development, for long, has been a focal point worldwide to maintain the ecological balance and at the same time, improve the quality…
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The Lockdown Diaries (XVII) — Puranikoti And The Other Side Of COVID
bySocial distancing actually works! It’s been more than a month since I arrived in my little village near Shimla from Delhi and my Oxymeter…
The Lock Down Diaries (XVI)- Flip Flops Do Not A Tourism Policy Make
byOne of the more unsavoury, man-made consequences of the pandemic has been the almost total concentration of power in the executive arm of governments….
The Lock Down Diaries (XV) – Journalism As News Laundering And Bhakti
byMove over, Arnab Goswami and Sambit Patra- the putrefying corpse of Indian journalism has a new poster boy! None other than our resident, apoplectic…
Of Guinea fowl of BuaRani
byIt was my ‘first sight love’ of Guinea fowl, at a friend’s house. Once seen, never forgotten -they look peculiar. With their unique personalities…
The Lock Down Diaries (XIV) – Quarantined In Eden
byMy family and I normally “migrate” to our cottage in Puranikoti village near Shimla every year in April but couldn’t this year because of…
Covid Triggered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Likely To Rise
byLet the fact sink in that COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on the global economy, politics, society, culture and everyone’s way of life,…
Transfer Of Power, IAS Style
byFor bureaucrats these are the best of times, and the worst. On the one hand they rule supreme with all MPs, Ministers, MLAs and…
Trends That Will Impact The Future Of Work
byPredicting the way that the future of work will operate could be simpler if we think about the fast evolution of tech trends such…
Of Parrots and Macaws; & Pallvi of Buarani
byI regurgitated ‘Gange rama churi khani aa…’* to my grandson Madhav’s ‘first sight love’ of a golden- blue macaw that prompted him to an…