Book Review – Mapping A Country’s History
byAMALGAMATING HISTORY WITH GEOGRAPHY The book is essentially a work of history, but from a different perspective. Historical accounts are usually narrated from either…
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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.
Local authorities at Himachal’s popular hill stations are yet to wake up from their slumber despite the fact that most of the picnic spots in the Himalayan state fall in high seismic zones IV-V, suggesting severest seismic sensitivity.
The Himachal Chief Minister should learn from the subsidence that is happening in Joshimath (Uttarakhand): the whole town is sinking under the weight of over construction and bad planning- more than 700 houses have already had to be abandoned.
KYC stands for Know Your Customer but trust me, the Bank has no interest in knowing you, only in fingering your money and passing it on to our growing tribe of NPA billionaires.
Why are so many well heeled people leaving India in droves, a kind of reverse migration since the Neanderthal man (along with a few women to give them the correct directions) came here from Africa and Europe?
Elections, through the instrument of black money, achieve what most govt. policies have failed to do for the last fifty years – the redistribution of wealth from the rich to the not so well off.
The new government can be termed as Congress 2. O government in Himachal Pradesh as the power shifted away from Holly Lodge after almost four decades.