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…
Opinions
Opinions
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…
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…