Living with the Mountains
byHill stations hold a special place in our collective imagination. For many, they are the perfect escape from sweltering summers—places where the air feels…
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Hill stations hold a special place in our collective imagination. For many, they are the perfect escape from sweltering summers—places where the air feels…
My home cadre, Himachal Pradesh, has been witnessing an extraordinary (and ongoing) kerfuffle in its corridors of power over the last month or so….
Most of us seek wisdom by reading tomes by wise men and Shashi Tharoor, but once in a while, going through a book for…
Himachal Pradesh stands at a precipice. The mountain state is enduring a relentless cycle of environmental catastrophe, yet its stakeholders – government officials, developers,…
I don’t fly much these days, mainly because I never know whether my plane is being flown by a pilot, co-pilot or auto-pilot. That’s…
In the summer of 2025, Punjab, India’s agricultural heartland, endured one of its most catastrophic flood events in nearly four decades. Relentless monsoon rains,…
We live in strange times indeed where the rules of logic are turned on their head everyday with every new executive diktat or court…
For years, ordinary people have lived under the weight of GST, a tax many jokingly called the “Great Suffering Tax.” Yes, it came down…
In my mom’s time, being slightly plump and curvaceous wasn’t just acceptable—it was attractive. Remember the old Bollywood heroines proudly filling the screen in…
Nothing is more heartening than the fact that the Government of India has now fully banned all real-money online games, including fantasy sports, card…