( Concluding part of the article ) THE WAY FORWARD The pandemic has provided us some important lessons for a sustainable world, the most important being that preservation of the natural environment is not just a matter of landscape aesthetics but an imperative for our own health and survival. This is also a warning for […]
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[ This is the first of a two- part article on this subject. ] Mr Vir Sanghvi has just sealed the fate of Mashobra, a once idyllic Shimla suburb where I live after my retirement. In an article last week he claimed that Mashobra was ” the new Maldives” of India. Now, Mr. Sanghvi must
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(The text of the speech delivered in a multi-religious vigil for Fr. Stan Swamy) It is natural and necessary to feel for the tragic death of a noble soul. All the more so, when it is enveloped in injustice. But this should not make us forget that the decisive thing is life, not death. What
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I am happy also for the present dispensation, for I am a patriot. Fr. Stan Swamy is no more. I feel awkward about mourning his death. Instead, I feel a strange sort of happiness. An eerie sort of relief. Who are we to mourn his death? We, who dare not utter a word, fearing for
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She is 39. He is 37. Keteki and Ved, the protagonists of Anjali Joseph’s new book, Keeping in Touch, meet at Heathrow Airport. She is returning home to Assam and he is on his way to Bombay. Such a beginning is liable to give an impression of entering the far-too-familiar landscape of a boy-meets-girl-at-airport-they-fall-in-love kind of
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Is Asian geopolitics becoming increasingly complex? Since its independence in 1947, what has been India’s approach to its shifting environment? In spite of having been a leader of the Nonaligned Movement during the Cold War, has India been largely an after-thought for global leaders? What is the significance of India’s current status as a counterweight
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There has been no bearded specimen in the Shukla family for the last hundred years at least, including my cousin Madho. He occasionally does present an untidy hirsute look which could be mistaken for a fuzz, but a closer examination reveals that his facial fallicles do not conform to the dictionary definition of a beard
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The Supreme Court has disappointed again. While not interfering with the bail granted to the three student activists- Natasha, Kalita and Asif- in the Delhi riots and ” conspiracy ” case, it has, vide its order of 18th June 2021, effectively stayed the Delhi High Court order on UAPA. To my mind, the court had
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Baba Ramdev is nobody’s fool, as the IMA ( Indian Medical Association ) seems to think. Anyone who started life by churning his stomach like a washing machine and ended up with a multi billion dollar empire has to be a smart cookie. And just marvel at his latest coup: the acquisition of the Rs.
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