Hiranmay Karlekar

Hiranmay Karlekar Threats to national security and measures to counter these will perhaps be India's most important preoccupation in 2015. The challenges and response will encompass two broad, and sometimes overlapping, areas of conflict -…
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Hiranmay Karlekar The rape of a young woman employee of a multinational corporation by a taxi driver working for Uber taxi services on 6th December  has once again brought the issue of women's safety to the fore. It is being widely said,…
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Hiranmay Karlekar The Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, now before the British Parliament, contains measures to cope with the enhanced threat that some aspects of terrorism have come to pose to Britain and the world. The Islamic State,…
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Hiranmay Karlekar Eric Hobsbawm, the eminent historian who passed away not so long ago, wrote in Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century, "The second (the first being printed publication) fine art which is doing well…
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Hiranmay Karlekar For some time, a number of reports by scientists has been showing how climate change has been affecting the whole world. A report in The New York Times of 29th September stated that, analysing the heat wave that hit…
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Hiranmay Karlekar Now that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's highly successful visit to the United States is over, India needs to give serious thought to the developments on its northern and north-western borders. One can argue that there is…
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Announcing a new Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, President Barack Obama of the United States of America said on 27th March, 2009, "So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal to disrupt, dismantle and…
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Hiranmay Karlekar Al Qaeda's announcement of a new branch, Quedat al-Jihad, to raise, according to its chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, "the flag of Jihad, return the Islamic rule, and empowering the Sharia'h of Allah across the Indian…
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