Summer in the Hills
bySummer comes slowly to the hills. One doesn’t quite know when to discard warm undergarments, remove the electric blanket and put away the quilts….
Opinion
Give me a Sign and I am that person…
bySigns are all that we read, all that we give and all that we decipher. Is there someone behind all those signs? Or do…
Simla Sustainers: Khans, Chaudharis and Coolies
byAmma would send us on errands at all odd hours of the day and why she would not as Simla of my days would…
Is the Chief Minister playing to the gallery by talking of eradicating corruption?
byDehra Dun : Chief minister Vijay Bahuguna literally let a cat loose amongst the pigeons when at meetings in Hardwar and Roorkee he openly…
Car-o-Bar
byThe time had come to realise that new middle class aspiration, buying a car! Or may be as someone counselled, “the time has gone,…
Endangered pheasant species multiply in Himalayan park
byKullu (Himachal Pradesh): The presence of the highly endangered, elusive western tragopan can now be felt more clearly in the Great Himalayan National Park…
The Himalayas and the Old Man: How much do we care?
byIgnorance is not always bliss; not when the climate and pristine ecology is at stake. A change in the climate that has served millions…
OOT PATANG
byWhile I was trying to elaborate on a complicated non point, she interjected, “Yeh kya Oot Patang bolte rehte ho!” Perhaps without any hope…
Walk the Talk: Nutan Thakur
byNutan Thakur – An empowered Indian Woman She has filed nearly a dozen PILs on her own. Her daughter (16 years old) has recently…
BHAIRON
byIt happened over two years ago, when I ran into Bhairon on a hot summer afternoon in Kullu. If ever there was a “no-strings-attached”…