Coffee house Gup Shup: AAP and Delhi Elections
byFalling snowflakes outside makes the steaming cup of coffee that much dearer as cold weathers settles into Shimla. Coziness of the gas fired heating…
Opinion
Optimizing Information Technology
byMore than two years back on November 2012, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon praised India as a “superpower” in the field of information technology…
Coffee House Gup-Shup: Park or ice-skating rink
byCalm of the dry winters, while sipping that morning’s cup in the coffee house, was disturbed by a news report. Prominently displayed in the…
Manali Winter Carnival 2015 a flop show
byThe Manali Winter Carnival that was started in 1977 to promote winter games and later to attract tourists to Manali is fast losing its…
Islamic Terrorism- a perspective from the West
by‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless…
Mr. Modi’s Kashmir Moment: Statesman or Politician
byIt has been truly said that there occasionally comes a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, can carry them…
It’s a plane, it’s a bird…..No it’s a shoe
byIn the course of last 15 years, a lot of them fell on the ground, dropped into the seas and some did hit their…
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…
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…