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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
The food trap
Human activity had wiped out, between 1970 and 2014, 60 per cent of all animals with backbones — fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) latest report, released earlier this month and stating that the process of producing and making food available accounts annually for...
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Big cat’s leap of faith
03 August 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Animals deserve a dignified living
25 July 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Annual trial by water
20 July 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
A witness to history
11 July 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
Can the monsoon die?
08 July 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
New threat in our backyard
27 June 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar -
The ticking time bomb
22 June 2019 | Hiranmay Karlekar
The world of fantasy
Sircar’s book on Bengal Renaissance is a work of highly impressive scholarship in its own sphere and deserves to be widely read. It is a tribute to Bengal’s literary heritage Sanjay Sircar’s Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance: Abanindranath Tagore: The Make-Believe Prince (Kheerer Putul) : Gaganendranath Tagore: Toddy-Cat the Bold...
Deal with displacement
Human dislocation due to climate change is now a reality. The world must gear up to face one of the greatest challenges confronting it A question that did not receive adequate attention on June 5, the World Environment Day, is about people described in the media as “climate refugees.” The United...
Clear dustbins of history
Rahul should defer his resignation until he works out a system of open election of leaders in which he, too, will contest on equal footing with others I remembered Leon Trotsky when it became clear that the Indian National Congress was going to be routed in the recent Lok Sabha elections....
Sign up for a new crusade
Climate change activists, who have been staging ‘die-in’ protests, have an important message: Action is urgently needed to prevent an environmental collapse According to a recent report by Mattha Busby in The Guardian of Britain, protesters in France, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands and the United...
Stop the savage slaughter
The mass murder of seals in Canada, which has the support of powers that be, must come to an end. The world must come together to exert economic pressure As I write, what the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) describes as “the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the...
In Dante’s footsteps
A new book chronicles a hi-tech Hell, which is very different from what one finds in the sacred texts, and echoes our times Charles Patterson’s recently published novel, In Dante’s Footsteps: My Journey to Hell: A Modern Divine Comedy, unfolds at two levels. At one, it is a set of intertwined...
Mass murder most foul
Theresa May has described the Jallianwala Bagh slaughter as a ‘shameful scar’ on British-Indian history. It will heal only after Britain formally apologises for the crime A hundred years ago this day occurred the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, which remains one of the worst crimes of British imperialism in India....
