8 February 2021 What happened in Chamoli was ‘waiting’ to happen? https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/in-pics-massive-flooding-after-glacier-breaks-in-uttarakhand-2365205 We were quite sure that the glacier burst was something similar to the previous experience in Himachal involving the Sutlej, where a glacier melt and a mudslide had created a lake that burst and a wall of water bulldozed its way downstream in […]
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1 February 2021 The flurry of administrative orders or executive orders that emanated from the White House have more or less reversed the direction of the American State within a fortnight. It demonstrated not how powerful a Presidency is in America after all, but to the larger world, it demonstrated a commitment upholding Biden Presidency, […]
15 October 2020 What scientists are wholehearted in agreement is that our planet Earth has seen an unprecedented period called Halocene, which has seen what we call the seasons of climate that is quite common to all cultures. Of course, Upanishads do mention how initially there was no sense of time, and Death the Progenitor […]
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Spurred by Sparrow
11 September 2020 When you are in the class of ‘birder’ that I am, you would have been quite dismayed to see the disappearance of the sparrow, the one small bird near you which you could identify, whose dewy drop eyes and chirpy nature conjured for you a sliver of sylvan spring, of hope and […]
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