A disclaimer is in order before I venture into the rest of this piece. These days, any hack of standing has to begin with a disclaimer to show that he is someone to be reckoned with, that his background is of interest to his readers, that he is pure as the driven snow, and that […]
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BOOK REVIEW: WE THE PEOPLE OF THE STATES OF BHARAT [ Sanjeev Chopra. Harper Collins. 2022. ] ( This review was originally published in the TRIBUNE) AMALGAMATING HISTORY WITH GEOGRAPHY The book is essentially a work of history, but from a different perspective. Historical accounts are usually narrated from either the victor’s angle, or the
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THE NEW INDIA WHINING This last fortnight has not been a good one for the BJP or its bhaktiveers, even if we discount the irony of an autocratic despot being invited as the Chief guest at our Republic Day function. One would have expected that the wiseacres of MEA would, in between rejecting assorted documentaries
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We are presently living in a geological epoch known as the HOLOCENE, which commenced about 12000 years ago after the Little Ice Age. It corresponds with the period of human growth, civilisations and technologies. But this human impact on the planet has been so massive that geologists are now seriously considering renaming this period as
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Basheer Ahmed M.D. A few years ago, while I was in Turkey, a long-cherished desire took me to visit Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi’s shrine in Konya, Turkey. A great scholar, philosopher or Sufi born once in a thousand years. And Rumi was one of those people who was born in 1207. Maulana Rumi the founder of
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RAINBOWS AND CLOUDS- A MEMOIR BY SUNEETA MUKHERJEE DIAMOND BOOKS, NEW DELHI. RUPEES 750/ PUBLISHED 2022. FOR THE LOVE OF LIVING This book is essentially a paean to the
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Plants do not dream because they do not sleep, but birds dream: they dream about being eaten by larger birds, about being caged by humans, about flying so high they knock their heads against the base of heaven. Then they fly higher and turn into angels. They dream all that and when they wake up they think about worms and sometimes
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Included on this website by the Editor’s permission. Though the story was long-drawn, Vinayak-rao listened attentively and did not interrupt the lady. But he naturally wanted to understand how she ended up in her present state. It wasn’t too clear as yet, who she was visiting every night. So, he asked her point blank: “Where
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THE HIMALAYAS HAVE SPOKEN IN JOSHIMATH, IS ANYONE IN SHIMLA LISTENING? Now that the Himachal Chief Minister, Mr. Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, has managed to form his Cabinet and appoint more Chief Secretaries/ Special Chief Secretaries and Advisors than there are trees in Shimla, I earnestly hope that he will apply his mind to more important
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