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…
Opinions
Opinions
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…
Death By Tourism (I)
byMr Vir Sanghvi has just sealed the fate of Mashobra, a once idyllic Shimla suburb where I live after my retirement. In an article…
Himachal Revenues Not Enough To Sustain Growth Of Hilly State
byAn analysis of the own revenues of Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh was constituted as a centrally administered territory on the 15th April 1948 by…
Artificial Intelligence & Socio-Economic Impact On Indians
by[Abstract– I am not deriding the good intentions of our past and present Indian Ruling Elites who have with the Big Capitalists, politically and…
A Toolkit For The Aspiring Bluebeards
byThere has been no bearded specimen in the Shukla family for the last hundred years at least, including my cousin Madho. He occasionally does…
It’s Time To Be Outraged, My Lords
byThe Supreme Court has disappointed again. While not interfering with the bail granted to the three student activists- Natasha, Kalita and Asif- in the…