We will be soon moving into a frenzy of celebrations, the biggest, the largest of all, largest on the whole of the earth so to say — Diwali. Diwali is to welcome Shri Ram back to Ayodhya, at least that’s what we are told. Today I see no such thing. Diwali is broadly speaking a …
(revised with inputs from Mr D H Ashish) For Indians, disparaging the front person is a matter of routine. Every opportunity to sneer at the educational qualifications of the front person is relished, and is to be amplified by gossip sharing the insult with a group of like minded foxes! This vulgar tendency is …
But now that governments have signed up to the unambitious Paris climate agreement and pledged to try to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we must ask whether we have lost sight of everything else. Is the environment just about carbon and parts per million of gases in the atmosphere? What about the environment that we can …