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Hiranmay Karlekar
Hiranmay Karlekar is Consultant Editor of The Pioneer and former Editor of Hindustan Times. He has authored four books in English and two novels in Bengali
Television and its warts
The print medium has the responsibility of countering the socially and morally devastating effect of the deplorable fare that some channels are churning out The character assassinations and defamatory campaigns, witnessed on some television channels by some anchors and reporters against individual film personalities and the Mumbai movie industry, have understandably...
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Two oceans in one
03 October 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Presumption of innocence
19 September 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Harvest of domination
05 September 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Importance of forests
22 August 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Being humane
08 August 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
The forgotten threat
25 July 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Passivity and its causes
11 July 2020 | Hiranmay Karlekar
Why we slip into amnesia
It is imperative to examine why events are relegated in the universe of consciousness because it has obvious implications in terms of follow-up/corrective action important to society Today is June 27. On May 27, a pregnant elephant collapsed in Velliyar river in Kerala’s Palakkad district and drowned. She had bitten a...
Murder most foul
Yet another savage outcome of human-elephant conflict in Kerala must propel us to get our act together. If not, animals will perish along with the environment The murder of a pregnant elephant, which died in the Velliyar river in Kerala’s Mannarkkad forest division in Palakkad district on May 27, must rank among...
Hysteria in a time of virus
The Corona pandemic has been killing far fewer people compared to road accidents and other causes. It has indeed brought out the best and the worst in humanity Watching the public’s and the Union and State Governments’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating progress of the cyclone Amphan, I...
Pandemic of obsessive fear
COVID-19 will remain like other viruses but the time has come to march forward. The focus should be on a strategy for lifting the lockdown and on a blueprint for life thereafter The fear of contracting COVID-19 is understandable. There is as yet no cure, no vaccine. An obsessive fear of...
Frailty of man vs animal
As the debate continues over the origin of Coronavirus in Wuhan’s wet markets, the fact is such places must be banned altogether given future threats to humans and animals as well While a contentious debate rages as to whether the COVID-19 virus emerged from a “wet” market selling live animals, including...
Empire state of mind
Will New York city rise again from the shadow of COVID-19? It did from the trauma of 9/11. Will there now be a second coming? Those familiar with NYC’s resilience know there will be Peering through the window, I could see the iconic Manhattan landscape with its tall towers soaring into...
The invisible people
The long march undertaken by migrant workers has reminded India of its poor but how long will this awareness last? One can argue that this is not the time to discuss the view, however credible, that the 21-day lockdown has been imposed without adequate thought to its consequences, particularly on the...
