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INDIAN WILDLIFE – CAN THE TIGER SAVE ITS STRIPES?

“Going in quest thereof, one of our Soldiers, a Youth, killed a Tigre-Royal; it was brought home by 30 or 40 Combies (Koonbee), the Body…

EXHAUSTED GANDHI ENDS CAMPAIGN IN MUD, OPPOSITION JUBILANT

BUSINESS NOT TOO WORRIED BY INDIA ELECTION OUTCOME

BHUTAN — REMOTE LAND STRIVES TO PRESERVE IDENTITY

BIHAR PRESS BILL-BATTLE CRY

Whatever else the government is butter-fingered at doing, it is adept at keeping the results of its impetuosity in a state of continuing suspense’. The…

BUREAUCRACY-THE POWER THAT BE

All private secretaries to Union ministers are equal, but S.R. Bhatia is more equal. Bhatia is the private secretary to Prakash Chand Sethi, the Union…

DESERTS – GREENING OF THAR

Lush vegetation in the Thar? Groves jamun trees? Mighty rivers the size of the Ganga and Indus? Seasons of monsoon-like rainfall? None of this is…

NOT SELLING VOLUMES

It was a browser’s dream come true kilometres of books that took hold of the bibliophile’s heart-strings and did not stop tugging for hours. For…

THE ART OF SURVIVAL

Deep inside the jungle in northernmost Mizoram, a lone man brews a tin mug of tea in the early morning haze. He is squatting on…

UTTAR PRADESH – PEACE OF THE GRAVEYARD

I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun. Yes it is. Vishwanath Pratap Singh had cause to be…

The Dehuli Massacre “Killing With Impunity”

“My resignation over the Dehuli issue is not important, law and order is,” was Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh’s answer when asked why,…

FOR WHOM THE BILL TOLLS

One of the misconceptions spawned by the Bihar Press Bill is that it will emasculate Bihar’s journalists. The truth is that Bihar’s journalists have already…