The World Summit at Null Island

Sometime in the future, not too distant in the 21st century ...The world no longer looked as beautiful as one used to experience or dream about. Many wars broke the economic spine of developed countries and not to speak about the developing nations. ...

Ashok Dohare – an officer and a digitalman

Ashok Dohare.Finally, August 31, 2021, has arrived, but nothing seemed unusual to Ashok Dohare, my batchmate in IPS, except for the fact that it is the time for him to hang up his brown Oxford shoes on the last day of his lengthy khaki career. Howeve...

Ode to RR Singh: My friend and fellow officer ‘Sher-e-Bikaner’

Rishi Raj Singh.During a lecture on a topic from Indian mediaeval history, suddenly a crispy voice from the back benches drew the professor’s attention with an indomitable query: “I object, sir, to calling the rulers by their faith. We sh...

Present imperfect and future uncertain – blame it on Covid

Funeral pyres burning at a ground that has been converted into a crematorium for mass cremation of coronavirus victims in New Delhi.As the Covid monster has been devastating human lives and national economies unabated across the world, I may infer th...

Three colours to resolve three Covid paradoxes

Just like any other horrible war, the recent cursed election wars in some Indian states have yielded results at last. Going by the critical remarks of Neville Chamberlain, who was the British prime minister between 1937 and 1940, on the inhuman conse...

India can beat Covid if it changes its behaviour and acts logically

Devotees taking holy dip in Ganga during Kumbh Mela in Haridwar.Unlike other pathogens, the novel coronavirus, Covid-19, seems to be a bit different. It is like Vali, the monkey king with special powers in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Legend has it that ...