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Chasing the Snow
Harihans Rampyare had cast a line in the Pabbar and was waiting for the trout to bite. On a waft of wind came the chimes of temple bells from the nearby Hateshwari Temple in Hatkoti, as I stood a short...
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Taking a village to the world
Sher Singh is a 49-year-old employee of the Department of Posts. And if you were one of the 650 or so inhabitants of Chitkul, a small Himachali village just shy of the border with China, you’d be very...
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Anurag Thakur: The New Czar of Indian Cricket
In the last three turbulent years at the BCCI – dogged as it has been with charges of fixing, conflict of interest, and the ongoing tussle with the Supreme Court (SC) – several BCCI Presidents have...
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A Crisis Called Rahul
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic party nominee for the presidency of the United States, recently described her Republican opponent Donald Trump as “temperamentally unsuited” to hold the highest office...
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Now Comes a Scandal Called Virbhadra Singh
In ancient times, apples were known as the fruit of the underworld, sustenance for those who would venture into deep, dark recesses from where there was no return. Virbhadra Singh, Chief Minister of...
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BJP in Pole Position
BY-ELECTIONS ARE usually tame affairs in Indian politics. The party in power in a given state usually walks away with wins. This is, in part, a matter of a longstanding tradition: voters seldom give...
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Leila Seth: Amazing Grace
IN THE PASSING away of Justice Leila Seth on May 5th, India has not only lost a great judicial mind but also a pioneering liberal judge.Seth was part of a group of pioneering lawyers who began their...
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Himachal Pradesh: Natural Selection
SOME THINGS JUST are. Dawn will break on the Dauladhars from the east, the streams will gush downhill, the lotus will bloom in Shimla again, and the Potus—a man called Trump—will chant ‘NaMo NaMo’ to...
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Rahul, Akhilesh and Wild Asses
Logically speaking, wild asses shouldn’t have dragged SP leader and former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat, especially not after Yadav’s...
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Uncomfortably Numb in Punjab
HAAN UD-DAA PUNJAB/ Arre haan ud-daa Punjab. The wild beats and psychedelic set-up of the song in the 2016 film Udta Punjab strike a grim note while scouring villages, towns and cities of what was once...
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