Now that the rains have mercifully abated in Himachal, the various Whatsapp groups have offered their anodyne prayers for the state, donations have been made to the CM’s Relief Fund to assuage consciences, and bureaucrats have made the right noises to cover up their silence when the environment was being raped over the years, it […]
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These are challenging times for government pensioners, of which horde I am one. One suspects that the government resents the fact that we now live much longer, notwithstanding the tender care dished out by the CGHS. Pensions, or at least parts of them, are denied to us on the grounds that we have not submitted
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The run up to the 2024 elections has begun. Motivated pre-poll surveys are popping up everywhere and confuse us on a daily basis, the Opposition has formed the I.N.D.I.A alliance whose future looks as precarious as that of the country it is named after, the BJP’s own 38 party alliance (not including the ED, CBI
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Some readers may find this blog a bit on the morbid side, but hold your final verdict till you come to the end of it: you may finally feel that it is in fact uplifting, poignant and even heart-warming. Though it deals with death, or, to be more precise, dying. Last week an online friend
People who have had the debatable good fortune to have met me, and have survived the encounter, will tell you that I have an open mind on most subjects. Somewhat like the RSSwhen it comes to discussing the concept of secularism. For instance, I am willing to see the other/ bhakt point of view in
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Query: Does anyone know where there might be a photo of Nirad Chaudhuri receiving an Honorary Doctorate either from the University of Oxford or from the University of Stirling? – The Archives at the Bodleian Library (University of Oxford) has no such photo. N.B. They explain that “the University Archives looks after the historic administrative records of
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