DO NOT BITE THE BAIT
byLocals bounced off the walls calling out “Rainbow… Rainbow” when I hooked a trout. To be true; I had no choice between Rainbow and…
Opinion
IF IT’S BOEING I AIN’T GOING !
byThis week my thoughts have turned to a subject I’m not very familiar with- outer space. Actually, I’m in the middle of a fascinating…
IN GOD WE TRUST
byWay back in 1983; across my room in the ‘Haslav* Technicum’, stayed a Danish boarder. The nest egg on his table caught my attention….
PRESENT IMPERFECT, FUTURE TENSE – AND TO HELL WITH THE PAST.
byOceania, that dystopian country in Orwell’s 1984 (to which India has started bearing a disturbing resemblance), has a Ministry Of Truth whose job is to function…
PHILATELY: KING OF HOBBIES
byPoking around the family archives, I happened to come across a bundle of philatelic material- waiting, perhaps, for my attention. I am carried on…
SPECTACULAR HIGH ALTITUDE PASSES OF HIMACHAL- PIN PARBAT
byThe massive Pir Panjal range of the Greater Himalaya separates the districts of Kullu and Lahaul-Spiti in Himachal Pradesh. There are a number of rugged…
THE SLAPSTICK QUANDARY
byThe last fortnight has not been a good one for Himachal’s politicians. The Chief Minister, Mr. Sukhu, lived up to the promise he had…
DELHI, HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME
byMy first posting as Deputy Commissioner was in 1980, to a district called Una. Una sits uncomfortably on the border with Punjab, and was…
LAST RIGHTS
byNotwithstanding the hundreds of babies who die every year in hospitals of the Delhi, Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad variety, rates of both infant and maternal…
THE MISSING GATE-KEEPERS
byCampaigning is now almost over as we head inexorably for Result day on the 4th of June, and it is a prospect which fills…