Pierre Jeanneret, the Swiss-born French architect whose name is synonymous with the modernist transformation of Chandigarh, ...

Most of us seek wisdom by reading tomes by wise men and Shashi Tharoor, but once in a while, going through a book ...

I have always been the friend whom people call reckless with shoes. Rain puddles, broken pavements, beach walks, I throw ...

When I lived in an independent house in a small city like Shimla in the 70s, festivals often passed quietly. Navratri, for ...

We are, without question, passengers on a vessel steered by “forces” we cannot foresee. When the news came that Zubeen Garg ...

As Editor, Ravinder Makhaik leads the team of media professionals at Hill Post. In a career spanning over two decades through all formats of journalism in Electronic, Print and Online Media, he brings ...

Himachal Pradesh stands at a precipice. The mountain state is enduring a relentless cycle of environmental catastrophe, yet its stakeholders – government officials, ...

Shattered chunks of fallen concrete, near my residence on the Forest Hill Road, Shimla, made me look into the bits of ‘ifs and buts’. Last year, it happened at MLA Crossing, where concrete is now made ...

Banyan tree is a breathtaking display of nature’s grandeur. Photo – Gurkirat Singh. In the tranquil village of Cholti Kheri, nestled within Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district, stands a natural wonder ...

I don’t fly much these days, mainly because I never know whether my plane is being flown by a pilot, co-pilot or auto-pilot. That’s a problem for me because these days the pilot is usually busy having ...

For years, ordinary people have lived under the weight of GST, a tax many jokingly called the “Great Suffering Tax.” Yes, it came down hard, emptying our wallets and dampening our spirits and even our ...

We live in strange times indeed where the rules of logic are turned on their head everyday with every new executive diktat or court ruling. The latest is this new epidemic of “privacy”- one sided, of ...