It Is Easier To Erase History Than To Script It
byHistory and literature rarely get it wrong. Didn’t the poet say that “If demonetisation comes, can monetisation be far behind?” And Ms Sitharaman has…
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The Alternate Social Media Is Restoring The Balance Of News
byIn the 2014 and 2019 elections every dimension of the news and social media was completely dominated by the BJP. The so-called mainstream print…
Naya Kashmir- Marz ki dwa?
by1962 was a terrible year for India. The once-friendly China had turned foe and invaded its NE frontiers. As they faced off at the…
Listen To The Silence – It Has The Answers
byThe vast majority of us ( and I include myself in this list ) are completely unaware of the role that sound – and…
Expiry Dates, Fused Bulbs And The Ghosts Of Retirement
byA bureaucrat is like a bottle of medicine: he comes with an expiry date. He knows, right from his first day in office, the…
Padri-Ki-Haveli
byIndia is a land of rich historical past & cultural diversity with people of different religions living here in complete harmony. Patna city in…
The Judiciary Has A Role To Play In The 2024 Elections
byThe bugles have been sounded for the five state elections next year and the General elections in 2024. The BJP, the well-oiled election machine…
Intimations Of Stupidity
byThese last two weeks have been pretty confounding and humbling for me, both as a generic Indian and a stand-alone Shukla. It’s bad enough…
India’s Pandemic Capitalism
byIn his best-selling book, TEN LESSONS FOR A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD, Farid Zakaria makes an interesting point. He says that since the early 1990s, global…
Death By Tourism (II)
byThe Way Forward The pandemic has provided us some important lessons for a sustainable world, the most important being that preservation of the natural…