Mumbai – The collateral damage... As I write, the Mumbai carnage seems to be ending. It was horrific to see Bombay turn into Beirut. A city and a nation taken hostage for 60 hours. Can a group of 25 people finish the entire city? How many will be required to finish off a nation of 1 billion? 500 or may be 1000. As usual people responsible...

Courier service – HRTC style... Today I had an interesting experience at the main bus station. I had gone to send a consignment to Dharamshala through the HRTC courier service. Before I start my rant, here is what the HRTC site mentions – The charges for non document category courier is 10/ per kg within Himachal and the cooliage...

Quota numbers... Couldn’t stop myself from posting this one: “The court of the Chief Justice of India virtually turned into a mathematics classroom earlier this week. This happened when a Constitution Bench was hearing a petition on the OBC quota in higher educational institutions. All the five judges, lawyers...

The anonymous samaritans... It was a short visit to Chandigarh to collect computers from IT park which were being donated by a company to set up a small computer center at my village at Kotgarh. The plan is to set up these in the local Govt high school. This has been a Voice of Himachal (VOH) initiative. Thanks to Varun and a team of...