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India hasn’t joined the queue to beg Trump for mercy; nor has China

India hasn’t joined the queue to beg Trump for mercy; nor has China
13.04.2025 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Time to book your condo on Mars?

Time to book your condo on Mars?
13.04.2025 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Dog-walkers and the future of employment in India

Dog-walkers and the future of employment in India
30.03.2025 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Grok, the new sheriff in town

24.03.2025 5

National Herald

Avay Shukla

‘Stale leaders’, or, a rumination on the 11-year rule

16.03.2025 40

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Are bankers driving you bonkers?

16.03.2025 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

It's official, we are now a nation of parasites

22.02.2025 40

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Last bus to Mandi

01.02.2025 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Review: MG Devasahayam's Book is a Plea to Remember Emergency And Worry About the Present Times

28.01.2025 20

The Wire

Avay Shukla

If not my wife, whose wife should I stare at, sir?

18.01.2025 20

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Himachal has no option but to bite the financial bullet

11.01.2025 4

National Herald

Avay Shukla

GST-nomics: How to eat your popcorn and tax it too

I have little or no sympathy for those doubting Thomases who continue to question the stupendous growth of our economy — such people should be...

04.01.2025 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Two cases, two judges — a watershed moment for India

The second week of December has been a pivotal period for the Indian judiciary, a week in which it has both plumbed the depths of  ignominy, and...

21.12.2024 10

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Digital immortality is already here!

In his seminal and thought-provoking book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari has some very interesting observations about mankind's quest for...

14.12.2024 8

National Herald

Avay Shukla

It’s not just EVMs, the whole electoral process is compromised

In my tiny village above Shimla, the only sounds one hears in the total stillness of the nights are the howling of jackals, the calls of a barking...

01.12.2024 4

National Herald

Avay Shukla

The three trillion dollar smog

While our Supreme Leader is accepting inconsequential awards in Guyana and elsewhere (do you even know where? Clue: nowhere near Manipur) and...

23.11.2024 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

A blunderbuss in Ukraine

United States President Joe Biden’s phone call to Narendra Modi commending him for his trip to Kyiv gave the game away. After the preliminary '...

31.08.2024 2

National Herald

Avay Shukla

A trek away from disaster

On the night of 17 July, about 120 trekkers were stranded below the 14,000-foot high Hampta Pass in Himachal, without adequate shelter, clothing or...

31.08.2024 2

National Herald

Avay Shukla

BJP deluded if it believes it is ready to dislodge Mamata Banerjee

For the past several years, West Bengal has been the BJP's wet dream. It almost appears like an addiction or obsession for the party, which has...

29.08.2024 7

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Why quota within quota matters

The word reservation is like an arrow that pierces through the intellect of many without ever moving. In fact, the irony is that casteism was...

25.08.2024 2

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Justice and violence in India, bulldozer and otherwise

On 9 June 2022, three United Nations special rapporteurs wrote to the Modi government regarding our ‘bulldozer justice’. Balakrishnan Rajagopal,...

25.08.2024 6

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Avay Shukla

Hospital Case will Either be Mamta Banerjee’s Kalinga or Her Waterloo — She can Change Course or Perish

In the reasoning of most right thinking people who are alarmed at the direction in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is taking the country the...

23.08.2024 2

The Wire

Avay Shukla

Ask and you shall receive...medals!

Emile Borel, a famous French mathematician in the first half of the 20th century, propounded the infinite monkey theorem, which stated that if a...

17.08.2024 5

National Herald

Avay Shukla

The mortician model of governance

A mortician's job is to carry out cosmetic enhancements to a deceased's body and to make it presentable before burial. It is different from that of...

10.08.2024 4

National Herald

Avay Shukla

Puja Khedkar case points to the disability within

A wise man once had this piece of advice for people who talk too much and out of turn: it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people suspect...

27.07.2024 2

National Herald

Avay Shukla

The Fine Print of the Ambani Wedding

In my 74 years I have not seen, or even heard of, a more tasteless, egotistical and pretentious wedding than the recent 24X7 televised extravaganza...

21.07.2024 10

The Wire

Avay Shukla