Are NGO’s India’s blind alley?
byA Good Samaritan once said “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others”. Most of us cannot…
Opinion
Himachal farms of no interest as govt prepares to regularize illegal urban constructions
byPreparing to legislate and regularize another round of large scale illegal constructions, the Himachal Pradesh government with an urban bias fails to register the…
Inviting Trouble
byIts my wife’s birthday later this month and I’ve been thinking of inviting a few people for dinner and drinks. And that’s precisely where…
Is It Time To Do A Rethink on Mr. Modi And The BJP?
byLong before words such as ‘populism’ and ‘majoritarianism’ started dominating public discourse Mark Twain had written: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of…
Even people who matter admit Uttarakhand going downhill
byDehradun: Uttarakhand statehood day was celebrated with much fanfare on Sunday, and there were big advertisements in the regional and other newspapers making tall…
Reforming India’s Labour Laws – A Thorny Legacy
byPerhaps the most complex piece of reform needed to be made to the Indian labour laws is to make them simpler The new government…
To kiss or not to kiss and tell
byIt is in the very nature of news that almost everything is in there for the wrong reasons. It so happened that a few…
Uttarakhand : Small States Not Necessarily Efficiently Governed
byDehra Dun : On November 9 Uttarakhand will celebrate 14 years of its founding, after the hill areas were cut out from Uttar Pradesh…
Trishna – Winterbottom’s Take on India’s Tess (Movie Review)
byPicking out Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the Victorian era rural settings and placing it in modern India in Trishna makes the…
Unearthing Black Money – The Hindu Way
bySo we have come full circle again – the list of holders of foreign accounts which had been lying with the government for three…