Himachal’s beautiful and priceless rivers are facing a new threat in their ongoing battle against “development”. First it was the roads hacked out in their valleys, dumping tens of millions of tonnes of earth and debris into their waters, constricting their flows and devastating aquatic life. Then came the hydel projects, extinguishing whatever little aquatic […]
THE NEW THREAT FOR HIMACHAL’S RIVERS Read More »
I’m not sure how many people outside India know of Subhas Chandra Bose, a major leader of this country’s independence movement who, after escaping from The British Raj at the onset of WWII, set up the Provisional Government of Free India as well as the India National Army (INA) in the shadow of Japan. He
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Lahore dozes in the summer. In spring, it comes alive with LitFests. The Faiz Festival occupied last weekend; the Lahore LitFest the next. In between, there has been the Horse & Cattle Show in the Fortress Stadium. Once the showcase for Punjab’s agricultural livestock and agro-produce, it has been revived as a showpiece by the
In 1826, a seventeen-year-old Anglo-Portuguese aspiring poet, Henry Derozio, was appointed lecturer in the senior school of the Hindu College, established just about a decade before in 1817 at the insistence of Indian‘gentlemen of distinction’, who had emphatically asserted to Chief Justice Edward Hyde East (as he wrote in his correspondence) that they wanted their
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A long, long time ago when people still read books and were not educated exclusively by Whatsapp forwards or Tik-Tok reels, Nirad Choudhry, the last Englishman in India, claimed in his book of the same name that India was a continent of Circe, where humans were turned into beasts. Now, 70 years later, he has
IT’S NOW OFFICIAL– WE ARE A NATION OF PARASITES Read More »
Read the article here. Posted here by kind permission of the copyright holder, Mr Kamal Malhotra.
Towards a Genuine and Inclusive ‘Viksit Bharat’ Read More »
Read the article here. Posted here by kind permission of the copyright holder, Mr Kamal Malhotra.
India’s Act East Policy: Re-energise and Make it 21st Century Relevant! Read More »
To enjoy any LitFest, one needs to be a hyper-active octopus, with eyes and ears at the end of every tentacle. The Lahore LitFest 2025 – the last in a trilogy before the abstinence of Ramzan – offered a banquet of intellect, spread over four halls in cruel competition. To attend one was to forgo
Yes, Kejriwal has lost the Delhi elections. But make no mistake- the AAP put up a valiant and courageous fight, and came to within inches of winning. Don’t let these sold out media platforms and sundry Yogendra Yadav clones tell you otherwise, look at the official figures. The BJP at 46% of the vote share
AAP IS ALIVE AND KICKING – IT’S THE ALLIANCE (CONGRESS) WHICH IS DYING Read More »
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