By: Shoonya
Isn’t it amazing how the rest of the world is falling over each other to grab a share of Himachal’s water and rock – the Jaypees, the Ambujas, the ACCs, all big time business honchos in toe.
I am told the Jaypees, the Ambujas, the ACCs are not naïve. If they are paying for it, [...]

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Una: As if trying to prove every word that scholars from all over the country said against SEZs during a national-level seminar at the Indian Institute Of Advanced Studies last week, hundreds of farmers from around 20 villages in Gagret area of Una district staged a fierce protest against the proposed SEZ and airport in [...]

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Naggar: Such is the mysticism of this little hamlet perched on the slopes of the mighty Himalayas in Kullu valley that artists find it almost irresistible not to be drawn by its beauty. After Nicholas Roerich came all the way from Russia to make Naggar his home almost a century ago, painters from all over [...]

By: Satyakam Bharti
Floods in the Gangetic plains and Eastern India are nothing new. As if a ritual, every year rainwater presents a ‘pity’ (or pretty) picture of vast plains dotted with half-visible rooftops. Television channels and newspapers carry moving pictures of the catastrophe of national magnitude giving enough opportunity to the powers that be for [...]

By: Shoonya
The state government has dangled yet another carrot to the people and they sure would bite it. As is the wont of any populist government, the BJP government in the state is thinking loud on excluding rural areas (in the vicinity of towns) from the Town and Country Planning Act. The question however is [...]