The Lock Down Diaries (XIV) – Quarantined In Eden
byMy family and I normally “migrate” to our cottage in Puranikoti village near Shimla every year in April but couldn’t this year because of…
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Covid Triggered Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Likely To Rise
byLet the fact sink in that COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on the global economy, politics, society, culture and everyone’s way of life,…
Transfer Of Power, IAS Style
byFor bureaucrats these are the best of times, and the worst. On the one hand they rule supreme with all MPs, Ministers, MLAs and…
Of Parrots and Macaws; & Pallvi of Buarani
byI regurgitated ‘Gange rama churi khani aa…’* to my grandson Madhav’s ‘first sight love’ of a golden- blue macaw that prompted him to an…
THE LOCK DOWN DIARIES (XIII): WHAT INDIA NEEDS IS NERD IMMUNITY
byWell informed that we have all become , thanks to the lock down, most of us are by now aware of the concept of…
The Lockdown Diaries (XII): Himachal’s Tourism Dilemma And The Parable Of The Third Bird
byThese are uncharted times for the tourism and hotel industries and most states are struggling to devise a road map for their recovery. Himachal,…
Coronavirus 2020 Pandemic Follows 1918’s Spanish Flue Path
byDespite a century’s progress in science, 2020 is looking a lot like 1918. With World War- I still raging, countries involved in the conflict…
India – New Zealand: Tales Of Two Covid-19 Lockdowns
byNew Zealand discharged its last Covid-19 patient on the day that India became the fifth worst-affected country with more than 2.67 lakh confirmed cases…
The Lockdown Diaries (XI) – The Next Pandemic Could Well Be ‘Made In India’
bySo narrowly focused are we on the pandemic that two environmental milestones have gone unnoticed. One, the 50th Earth Day has come and gone…
The Lockdown Diaries (X) – The Enlightening Fruits Of ‘Tapasya’
byWe have a lot to thank the C-virus and the lock down for. I’m not speaking here of its environmental benefits- that subject we…