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The other day, I visited what is being billed as the Ahmedabad International Flower Show 2026, currently underway at the Sabarmati Riverfront Event Centre. This was my second visit to the Ahmedabad flower show. I went with my NRI friends, who remarked that the display this year was far superior to what they had seen when they […]
This blog is a continuation of my story “English proficiency for empowerment: Modi’s SCOPE vision contrasts Amit Shah’s remark”. I personally found nothing unusual in the Union Home Minister’s “feel ashamed” remark directed at those who speak in English, as I have witnessed his dislike for the language on several occasions during my stint as the Times of […]
A new report by Toxic Links, an Indian environmental research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi, in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund, a global non-profit headquartered in New York, has raised the alarm that Sabarmati is one of five rivers across India found to contain unacceptable levels of nonylphenol (NP), a chemical linked to “exposure […]
Personally, I have no love lost for Parshottam Rupala, though I have known him ever since I was posted as the ‘Times of India’ representative in Gandhinagar in 1997, from where I was supposed to do political reporting. Rupala has been in the news after he made the statement that ‘maharajas’ succumbed to foreign rulers, […]
Several environmental activists, social workers and academics, most of them belonging to the arid Kutch district of Gujarat, have sought Gujarat authorities’ urgent intervention to “notify, protect, restore and rejuvenate” lakes of the historic Bhuj city, threatening legal action in case they fail to do it. Those who have signed a letter, which has been shot to […]
