Hiranmay karlekar biography

Hiranmay Karlekar, a distinguished Indian journalist, is Consultant Editor of The Pioneer and, currently, a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India.
Hiranmay Karlekar, a distinguished Indian journalist, is Consultant Editor of The Pioneer and, currently, a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India, India’s apex governmental body dealing with animal welfare.
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Bangladesh: The Next Afghanistan?

`It is, I think, a timely and sobering reminder of the power of all kinds of fundamentalisms in the contemporary world, and that no society is proof against their ravages, even those which have prided themselves on their secularism, tolerance and pluralism. Bangladesh is a country haunted by divisions - not only the Partition of India, but also that of the War of Liberation, and the even more fateful split, between Muslim and Bengali, which is the more menacing because it exists within individuals, within the people themselves. Whether the wholeness of a specifically Bengali version of islam can be restored is the question which this book poses′ -

Jeremy Seabrook, The Guardian

`This book should ring a warning bell for policymakers in the South Block. If you do not agree, read Karlekar′s chilling tale of the death of Mjuibur′s dream - and that of many others who naively believed in it′ - Kanchan Gupta, India Today

`The book unravels how the hate matrix has found a place in a culturally vibrant society that just two decades back a

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Hiranmay Karlekar Consultant Editor, The Pioneer

Hiranmay Karlekar, a distinguished Indian journalist, is Consultant Editor of The Pioneer and, currently, a member of the Animal Welfare Board of India, India’s apex governmental body dealing with animal welfare. Mr Karlekar frequently writes on animals in his column which appears in The Pioneer every Thursday and has also written about them in The Tribune and the Outlook magazine.

A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard (Class of 1967), Mr Karlekar, in his career as a journalist spanning four-and-a-half decades, has been Editor of Hindustan Times, Deputy Editor of The Indian Express, and Assistant Editor of The Statesman and the Hindusthan Standard, an erstwhile publication of the Ananda Bazar Patrika group in Kolkata. Starting his journalistic career with Ananda Bazar Patrika as a Staff reporter in 1963, Mr Karlekar has also been Associate Editor of Aajkaal published from Kolkata.

A member of the Press Council of India in two stints during 1978–80 and 2004–07, Mr Karlekar has been a General Secretary of the Edi

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. – M.K. Gandhi

A report in the Delhi edition of The Pioneer on Sunday, July 21, quoted the well-known actor, John Abraham, as saying that animals should be treated at par with human beings. Referring to the music video Unleash, sung by Kunal Avanti under the name of IAmAnimal, in which he features along with Jacqueline Fernandes, he further stated that peoples’ attitude towards animals should change and that he was against hunting and the felling of trees.

Abraham needs to be congratulated. The manner in which we enslave and treat animals would shame even the most savage colonialist. Consider our behaviour towards cattle. Cows are driven out in the cold after they stop yielding milk. They are suddenly thrown into the mercy of the elements after being sheltered from when they were very young, and forced to fend for food after being regularly fed. Many die of exposure or fall prey to tigers and leopards in areas close to forests.

As for food, they are beaten off crop-