Osmanabad, recaptured by Police Action from the Nizam not all that long ago and added to Maharashtra had a very curious species as their first IAS Assistant Collector in 1964. Someone who let the strains...
Media exists to vend doom and gloom. The simple goodness of 999 persons out to 1000 on this planet apparently interests no one at all. How else can you establish a mastery over simple minded...
No Zola,I, to tilt at the latter day anti-Dreyfusards to contain the likes of fin de siècle Semitism,in current day cyber space. Our major ague of these times is religion in politics.So consider what some...
As someone with half a century of public service,35 years in the saddle and 15 trotting near the horse,my guess is that in our great and glorious Republic,some cynicism intended, there are nearly 3,000 rapes...
Opthals, doctors, lawyers,tinkers, tailors can carry on until they can’t cure their own cataracts, torts and writs lose their bites and pots and pans become ifs and ands. For the likes of me, all bureau-cats are...
Our city’s leading historian, Sharada Dwivedi, who passed away much too early recently, told me that the best possible birthday of Bombay is June 21,1661.That was when it was handed over to Charles II by...
