Odds and trends: March 21 editionbyPrem PanickerMarch 21, 2019 RAVISH Kumar of NDTV reports that Modi’s “massive outreach” to chowkidars via an audio bridge (the point of…
Disaster, foretoldbyPrem PanickerMarch 21, 2016 The news: A water vessel carrying 1,235 tonnes of coals has sunk in the Sundarbans’ Shela River after…
Lots in a namebyPrem PanickerMarch 19, 2016 Back to ‘Yes Minister’. Remember this episode? Seriously, folks — keep that book by your bedside table. Refer…
“Delhi’s river, that mangy, smelly, desperate thing…”byPrem PanickerMarch 11, 2016 Mitali Saran in acerbic voice on Art of Living’s birthday bash: Delhi’s river — that mangy, smelly, desperate…
The art of causing floodsbyPrem PanickerMarch 4, 2016 A timely — or maybe not timely, since the ship seems to have upped anchor — warning for…
The man-made “natural disaster”byPrem PanickerMay 6, 2014 Remember this image, which spoke a thousand eloquent words about the June 2013 floods in Uttarakhand? A…