Public Goods And Private Empires
byIn my house in a village above Shimla I am treated to an orchestral performance every evening when it rains. The musicians are a…
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In my house in a village above Shimla I am treated to an orchestral performance every evening when it rains. The musicians are a…
Unanswered questions persist, notwithstanding the whitewashing by the govt., CAG and the Supreme Court, and the issue appears to have reached a dead end in India.
The health of the rivers is solely dependent upon how we treat them. What we throw in them.
We did it again last Thursday- for the seventh time India abstained on a UN vote that asked Russia to cease hostilities and vacate…
DNA sequencing has established conclusively that humans share 99% of their genomes with chimpanzees and bonobos monkeys, and 98% with gorillas. In other words,…
A disclaimer is in order before I venture into the rest of this piece. These days, any hack of standing has to begin with…
AMALGAMATING HISTORY WITH GEOGRAPHY The book is essentially a work of history, but from a different perspective. Historical accounts are usually narrated from either…
The New India Whining This last fortnight has not been a good one for the BJP or its bhaktiveers, even if we discount the…
We are presently living in a geological epoch known as the HOLOCENE, which commenced about 12000 years ago after the Little Ice Age. It…
One of the more sobering take-aways from the book is the realisation that balancing home and work-life is a precarious exercise for a career woman in India even today, no matter that you belong to the most sought after service in the country.