Book Review: The Rafale Deal: Flying Lies ?
byUnanswered questions persist, notwithstanding the whitewashing by the govt., CAG and the Supreme Court, and the issue appears to have reached a dead end in India.
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Plastic Pollution – A Big Threat To Himalayan Rivers
byThe health of the rivers is solely dependent upon how we treat them. What we throw in them.
Sitting On The Fence Cannot Be A Sustainable Foreign Policy
byWe did it again last Thursday- for the seventh time India abstained on a UN vote that asked Russia to cease hostilities and vacate…
Chimpanzees At Yale ?
byDNA sequencing has established conclusively that humans share 99% of their genomes with chimpanzees and bonobos monkeys, and 98% with gorillas. In other words,…
Of Puppets, Surrogates And The Real McCoy: A ‘Crash’ Course On The Indian Stock Market
byA disclaimer is in order before I venture into the rest of this piece. These days, any hack of standing has to begin with…
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…
A Week Of Conspiracies, Nationalism And Delusions
byThe New India Whining This last fortnight has not been a good one for the BJP or its bhaktiveers, even if we discount the…
Anthropocene – The Age Of Destruction
byWe are presently living in a geological epoch known as the HOLOCENE, which commenced about 12000 years ago after the Little Ice Age. It…
Book Review – Rainbows And Clouds By Suneeta Mukherjee
byOne 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.
Poor Urban Planning A Curse For Himachal’s Popular Hill Stations
byLocal 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.