Avay Shukla

This is the century of Private Capital. While governments involve themselves in waging wars and making life as difficult as possible for their citizens, it is the private sector that is pushing forward the frontiers of economic development and spawning the innovations that will make life sustainable in the years to come. It is  private […]

I don’t like, or trust, coincidences and believe there is no such thing as a coincidence if something happens again and again.. In fact, I’m one with the Japanese cartoonist Osama Tezuka when he says:  “Coincidence doesn’t happen a third time.” This thought is clarified even further by Ian Fleming: ” Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three

Friday, 24 June 2022 I belong to the 1950 batch of homo sapiens, and wasn’t singled out for any special favours by the Creator when He was dishing out His divine gifts. So, as you can guess, I’m a pretty average Joe – average intelligence, average physique, average health, average abilities and skills; this last

If there are qualities our Prime Minister does not lack they are a soaring ambition and the self-confidence to believe that he can do anything he sets his mind to. These are, incidentally, the same qualities that Dedalus of Greek mythology possessed in abundance, and which brought him crashing back to earth, but since mythology

Thursday, 9 June 2022 RELIGIOUS HATRED IS NOW ON AUTO-PILOT     So the BJP national spokespersons, Nupur Sharma and Naveen Jindal have now been served the first serving of their just desserts. But anyone who thinks that this represents a course correction for the party has to have the brain of a guinea fowl

 [ This piece is not about the IAS, it’s about dogs. ] I am a congenital dog lover and therefore I have to agree with Mrs. Maneka Gandhi on this one: the decision to exile the Delhi IAS couple of walking fame to Chinese claimed territories is hasty, disproportionate, over the top, and wrong. But

There is a quiet revolution taking place in the world, but as is usual with most good things, it is passing India by. This movement, about fifteen years old but gathering momentum, is variously known as Rewilding of Rivers or as Dams Decommissioning. Its premise is that dams belonged to a different era of environmental

This last week has been a bit of a traumatic experience for us, the residents of Puranikoti village, as far away from Khargone and Jehangirpuri as Sabarmati Ashram is from the BJP headquarters in Jhandewalan. Now, PK is a tiny village with just 192 “souls” ( as the PWD board proclaims), we don’t even have