Greening roadsides
Region: India
In History lessons in the primary school we were told about the penchant of the Afghan King Sher Shah Suri for improving the then-existing administrative set-up. An ethnic Afghan, born in Hissar in Punjab, he took control ... more
Views: 257Reprieve for Asiatic lions
Region: India
Hanging fire for decades the Supreme Court resolved the issue the other day. The issue was about relocation of a few Asiatic lions from their only home in the Gir National Park to the already-prepared Kuno Palpur W... more
Views: 746Vote against Sri Lanka - India's muddled diplomacy
Region: IndiaNews came in the other day that the already agitating students of Chennai are going to launch protest rallies when the internationally popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty-20 cricket matches take place at the city&rs... more
Views: 1284Contracting Indian economy spells trouble
Region: IndiaEven as a layman uninitiated in economics I get an unmistakable sinking feeling, the same which I used to get during the days of our pseudo-socialism. Prices would rise relentlessly while the incomes would by and large rem... more
Views: 496Varanasi - the "Timeless City"
Region: India
While some reckon Varanasi is the filthiest Indian city, for devout Hindus it is a 'Timeless City', the holiest of holy place to secure moksha (release from the repeated cycle of birth and death – a Hindu belief). My... more
Views: 741Rapes are not rampant in India alone
Region: IndiaDespite all that happened in the aftermath of the Delhi gang rape last December rapes seem to be continuing in relentless manner. Every morning one comes across at least half a dozen reports of rapes in the newspapers. The... more
Views: 740Democratic India's shrinking freedoms
Region: IndiaFor more than sixty five years we have been a democracy and we are even called the largest democracy in the world. Some call our democracy vibrant and some others brand it “raucous”. Whatever one might ... more
Views: 498With blood on the borders peace remains elusive
Region: IndiaT he latest reports say that the LoC (Line of Control) between Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) has cooled d... more
Views: 863A rape that stunned India
Region: India
It was different; it was a different kind of gang-rape that shook not only the nation but also the Diaspora, besides evoking strong and sensitive reactions from abroad. It even prompted the Secretary General of the United ... more
Views: 716Eighty years of Indian Cricket
Region: India
India is celebrating “80 years of Test cricket”. The country played its first ever Test match in the Lord’s cricket ground in London against England in the summer of 1932 and has since then become a name ... more
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A retired Indian civil servant who took to writing on local issues, eventually ending up as a citizen journalist and a social activist
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