The transfer of 2 officers to Ladakh, Arunachal
A Chekhovian drama was recently played out in Delhi. Media reports front-paged flagrant abuse of power by a senior IAS couple right in...
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- May 15, 2022
- 3 min
Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and The Big Jubilee Read
A year-long celebration is under way to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, as she becomes the first British monarch to...
- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
Surviving Global Warming | The move away from fossil fuels is not happening fast
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in a stark statement this week, sheared the jargon off the latest report of the Intergovernmental...
- Apr 10, 2022
- 3 min
Seeking reparations from British royals no longer a fringe demand
As royals go, the duke and duchess of Cambridge are near perfect. Good-looking, assured and alluringly attired, they waft through crowds...
- Dec 26, 2021
- 3 min
The land of the five rivers is on the verge of desertification
Arvind Kejriwal was recently interviewed by three anchors on a discussion platform regarding his party’s political aspirations in Punjab....
- Nov 28, 2021
- 3 min
Inaccuracies abound in ‘Sardar Udham’
The recent movie Sardar Udham can evoke mixed reactions. On the one hand, Udham Singh’s story needs to be told. In an act of determined...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 3 min
Biden's approval ratings are sliding steeply south
It was only this January that Donald Trump’s trapeze act through the White House came to an undignified end, as if someone had snipped...
- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
Shame China without naming it?
Quadrilaterals are generally irregular; the only regular quadrilateral, a square, has all its sides, and all its angles, equal. As in...
- Sep 6, 2021
- 6 min
Taliban’s return is the next act of an unending Afghan tragedy
THE NEW GREAT GAME “Now I shall go far and far into the north, playing the Great Game….” —Rudyard Kipling (Kim, 1901) THE EPITHET OF the...
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