Hiranmay Karlekar

Hiranmay Karlekar The prospect of the US relenting on its proposal to drastically slash the number of H-IB visas and also stiffen the conditions for issuing them, do not seem very bright. Apart from President Donald Trump's pre-election…
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Hiranmay Karlekar     The security threats India faces from Pakistan and China have been discussed at length. Islamabad's strategic doctrine of balkanising India to counter this country's military superiority over it and salience in the…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  Joseph Stiglitz says in Globalization and its Discontents, "I have written this book because when I was at the World Bank, I saw firsthand the devastating effect that globalisation can have on the developing countries,…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  The attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad on March 2, in which nine persons were killed and 19 wounded and the chancery was damaged, deserves more than passing attention. No less a person than Mr Hamid Karzai, a…
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Hiranmay Karlekar It is important to reflect a little before hailing the alert by Pakistani National Security Advisor, Lt Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua, about fidayeen infiltration into Gujarat, as signalling a positive change in…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  The report by Justin Gillis in The New York Times last week that scientists have identified 2015 as the warmest year recorded in history - overtaking 2014, which had the distinction earlier - is hardly surprising. That…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  Now that India is once again in the part of the year when the Kargil War was fought in 1999, it may be instructive to analyse what accounted for victory in it and humiliating defeat at China's hands in 1962. Both were…
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Hiranmay Karlekar There is everything to be said for cordial India-China relations and moves to promote mutual ties. Equally, everything needs to be said for keeping one's powder dry given the experience of 1962 when, thanks to Krishna…
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Hiranmay Karlekar Like the unseasonal rains that ruined crops across northern India, the heat wave currently sweeping large parts of the country underlines the disastrous effects of global warming on human life. But then this is only the…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  To many, the explosion of thunder and snuffle over the Salman Khan case is now old hat, given the ephemeral lifespan of news items. Yet aspects of it, particularly the reactions of a significant section of India's…
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