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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
Endgame in Afghanistan
India must force its way into the peace process. It must show its willingness to support the Kabul regime with military hardware, other than financial and technological aid One has heard the question before: “What is going to happen in Afghanistan?” There are two reasons for revisiting it. The first...
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Why is a pot calling the kettle black?
10 January 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Return of a friend
05 January 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Importance of the Agni series
27 December 2018 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Temple politics a non-starter
22 December 2018 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Ramblings in winter
13 December 2018 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Ban animals in circuses
08 December 2018 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Combating climate change with lifestyle
29 November 2018 | Hiranmay Karlekar
The Amritsar attack
The message to the world must be clear: Attempts to revive insurgency and terrorism in Punjab will be crushed At the time of writing, Bikramjit Singh alias Bikram, one of the two alleged perpetrators of the grenade attack on a Nirankari congregation which left three dead and 20 wounded in Amritsar...
Fighting under alien skies
The deeds of Indian warriors in World War I are a testimony to their spirit despite colonial discrimination World War I, dubbed “the war to end all wars”, ended with an armistice signed on November 11, 1918. The main belligerents were Britain, France, Russia (until the revolution of 1917), Italy (from...
Justice to Avni
Humans are not the natural prey of tigers. Her transformation has, therefore, to be seen in the wider context of human-animal conflict and the factors leading to it One hopes that the inquiry ordered by the Maharashtra Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, which, as he said, “will probe all questions being raised...
The Sixth Extinction?
The results of a slow-down in the evolution of the mind will be disastrous According to the report of the World Wildlife Fund’s conservation group, titled Living Planet, human activity had wiped out, between 1970 and 2014, 60 per cent of all animals with backbones — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and...
Against the odds: Elections in Afghanistan
The very fact that voting took place and that a large number of women queued up for parliamentary elections in Afghanistan represents a triumph of democracy in face of formidable odds It is easy to run down the elections to Afghanistan’s 250-member Wolesi Jirga, the lower House of its bicameral National...
What it takes to kill a Tigress
The human-animal conflict is unequal given the weapons and other resources which humans command. T1 is perhaps destined to be one of its victims Time was when, faced with persistent complaints of a human-devouring tiger or tigress on the prowl, authorities in what is now Uttarakhand, particularly its Kumaon region, would...
Chronicle of a death foretold
The UN’s report on climate change makes for a chilling read. The threat of global warming is very real and requires a mass movement else it may lead to the end of life on earth The Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...
