Article Bharat, Pahalgam Massacre – III : The Aftermath During four days of war about India’s reprisal on terrorists and their masterminds, and consequent a limited yet intense autonomous war with the nuclear armed hostile neighbour, Pakistan, indeed surprised and shocked the global community, more so the Western countries including the US and Europe, which so far had perceived India as a largely tolerant […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 28, 2025August 31, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Bharat, Pahalgam Massacre – II: The Reprisal While reactions and responses from various walks of the Indian populace were abuzz expressing shock and anger against the gruesome terror attack at Pahalgam on Indian tourists, mostly Hindus, as also tribute and condolences for the slain people and their surviving families, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut short his Saudi Arabia visit to return home […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 18, 2025August 20, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Bharat, Pahalgam Massacre – I: The Attack The very origin of Pakistan in 1947 was a consequence of a sustained cultural and religious hate and intolerance against Hindus, nurtured by the ambitious fundamentalist and fanatic leaders, and their followers in Islam. Following the independence, the rulers of the new Islamic Republic of Pakistan waged war against India in 1948, 1965 and 1971. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article A Sordid Tale of Credal Abhorrence & Vandalism This writer, while growing through the teenage, learned from parents and other elders that we Hindus are followers of the Sanatana Dharma which is over ten millennia old and that our civilization and our culture is a product of an eternal way of life which is based on the core principles such as the Vasudhaiva […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh July 9, 2025July 13, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article A Keen Naturalist’s Dreamy Spring Garden Dr Sarala Waghray, originally a fisheries biologist and educator for long in India during her prime age, is an accomplished naturalist with immense zeal, commitment and dedication towards the ornamental plants and flowers. A naturalist, to my mind, is a person with immense zeal and commitment for the plant and animal life, and who spends […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 24, 2025July 9, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Dhuandhar Falls Oozing Out A Divine Mist Editor’s Delight The beauty and grandeur of the marble rocks on the banks of Narmada River at Bhedaghat, Jabalpur in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India was earlier explored by me in a photoblog a few years ago. Bhedaghat is a small town in Jabalpur, which continues to be third largest city, a historical place, […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 23, 2025November 25, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Adventure Safari to Kanha National Park Editor’s Delight The mystique of forests and wildlife has always fascinated me during life. Years ago, I had spectacular opportunity to be close to the nature and explore these fascinations during my near two years stint at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, where I served as the Controller of Defence Accounts with main office there and almost […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 22, 2025November 25, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Visiting Mahakumbh at Prayagraj The recently concluded Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj, India has not only been the largest sacred pilgrimage of the Hindus of the cultural and religious nature so far but also it set out multiple Guinness World Records, which include the events like the largest simultaneous river clean-up, the most volunteers in a single-site cleanliness drive, […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh March 11, 2025March 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article The Opposition Blunders in Inviting Debate on Constitution During the last fifteen years or so, the level and quality of the Parliamentary debates in India have constantly deteriorated and every other day new paradigms of the noisy scenes and unruly conduct by members are established, particularly by those belonging to the oldest political party of India. The second stint of the Congress led […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh January 6, 2025January 6, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Article Deep State: The Invisible Hands of Disruption Although the unethical and illegal interference in the internal matters of the developing countries by the state and non-state actors in some countries of the developed West is not a new phenomenon but two incidents having a devastating impact on South Asian countries biz. India and Bangladesh during the last two years made this author […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh December 7, 2024December 9, 2024 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A timeless Echo Editor’s Pick We never weren’t the friends we wereTime brought a rough change in the weatherThus seized in the tempest’s blinding galeI allowed my inner conscience guide my sail. Something that happened was indeed a phaseA saga in itself and a long-lasting eclipseBut it evaporates now, with so many changesAs the heart doesn’t care about […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 4, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Silver Lyre of Gondwana An age-old songsmith from Gondwana’s dawnThrough moist Australian forests stepping onMidst luxuriant ferns and moss, rich clay floorsA Lyrebird weaves the melody that life restores. A silver lyre of feathers proudly crowns its graceWith lacy plumes and fine antennae in spaceThe finest artist of the rich fauna in the forestA hundred wild voices live within […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Pearlescent Spiral What a curled pyramid made of boneIt survives within the salt waters’ reef aloneA silent shadow from the ocean’s dawnThis living fossil of million years drifts on As Indo-Pacific reef and shadowy depth divideNautilus navigates the vertical dark and tideIts unique siphuncle allows to sink or riseWhile it is fully secure within its vault inside. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Armoured Ascetic The little armoured soul walks the earthBears a shell of shields from day of birthNot rigid stone but the bands that bendIntertwine flexible skin from end to endWith banded shield and armoured crownIt keeps its watchful gaze often cast down. Using mighty claws and digging powerThey can fashion the earth within an hourDeep labyrinth homes […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Monarch of Spines & Clay An avid ant-eater, it’s spiny and brownEchidna keeps its careful gaze cast downWith a moving shield of pale-hued spearIt strolls untouched by predators’ fearAlso seldom in hurry, it does not fightYet capable of vanishing from open sight. Egg-laying mammal with a sensitive noseIt snuffles where the ant or termite goesWith claws that breach the hardest […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
A timeless Echo Editor’s Pick We never weren’t the friends we wereTime brought a rough change in the weatherThus seized in the tempest’s blinding galeI allowed my inner conscience guide my sail. Something that happened was indeed a phaseA saga in itself and a long-lasting eclipseBut it evaporates now, with so many changesAs the heart doesn’t care about […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 4, 2026June 5, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Silver Lyre of Gondwana An age-old songsmith from Gondwana’s dawnThrough moist Australian forests stepping onMidst luxuriant ferns and moss, rich clay floorsA Lyrebird weaves the melody that life restores. A silver lyre of feathers proudly crowns its graceWith lacy plumes and fine antennae in spaceThe finest artist of the rich fauna in the forestA hundred wild voices live within […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Pearlescent Spiral What a curled pyramid made of boneIt survives within the salt waters’ reef aloneA silent shadow from the ocean’s dawnThis living fossil of million years drifts on As Indo-Pacific reef and shadowy depth divideNautilus navigates the vertical dark and tideIts unique siphuncle allows to sink or riseWhile it is fully secure within its vault inside. […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Hindu, Hinduism and Hindustan: Part LXXV Pilgrimage-I Nearly all communities and religions in the world attach significance to places which have some connection with any worldly or supernatural act(s) or event(s) of the divine (God) or His messenger(s); the birth, enlightenment or death of founder and saints; sites of the spiritual calling or awakening; supposedly a dwelling or living place of […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh October 31, 2022November 17, 2023 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Gulmohar Again In a life dull and forlornOwing to devastation and fearCaused by the alien coronavirusAs I venture out after weeksFrom my humble yet safe homeIn this rather isolated yet sheltered lane… Oh! It’s the month of May againThe time for Gulmohar to go greenAnd blooming full swing againIn the lane flanked by umpteenGulmohars forming a canopy […] Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh May 11, 2021November 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Whose God is This Anyway? God (Brahman) is the highest... Written by Dr. Jaipal Singh February 24, 2021March 11, 2025 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
ज्यों-ज्यों बूड़ो श्याम रंग बसन्त विहार कालोनी की परंपरानुसार... Written by Gita Singh February 22, 2021September 21, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked