SKY GETS DARK

*The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly-A must read for all Senior citizens*

Mao Dun literary prize winner Zhou Daxin's latest novel soon to be published, *The Sky Gets Dark, Slowly* , is a sensitive exploration of old age and the complex, hidden emotional worlds of the elderly in a  rapidly ageing population.

In it he writes, "…Many elderly speak as though they know everything, but of old age they are in fact as ignorant as children. Many elderly are in fact, completely unprepared for what they are to face when it comes to getting old and the road that lays ahead of them.

DOON SCHOOL BOYS

THE UNTOLD STORY OF HOW THE DOON SCHOOL GOON SQUAD RAN BHARATAVARSHA TO THE GROUND

A commentary on how the political elite from Doon School at Dehradun held back India's all-round progress and development and treated the country as their fiefdom

Prime Minister Rajiv Ratna Gandhi was forty-one when his stately form set foot once again on the opulent lawns of his alma mater to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. He was decked up in an elegant old boys' navy blue blazer and tie with the school badge affixed on the breast pocket. A minor fuss had ensued regarding the sartorial decision: 

ACCESSION OF J & K 1947

26TH OCTOBER 1947: MAHARAJA HARI SINGH AGREES TO THE ACCESSION OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR TO INDIA

"Now, therefore, I Shriman Inder Mahander Rajrajeswar Maharajadhiraj Shri Hari Singhji, Jammu and Kashmir Naresh Tatha Tibbetadi Deshadhipathi, Ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, in the exercise of my sovereignty in and over my said State do hereby execute this my Instrument of Accession [. . .]"By signing on this legal document, known as the Instrument of Accession, on October 26, 1947, Hari Singh, the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, agreed that the State would become a part of India.