About Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
Pramit Pal Chaudhuri has resumed as foreign editor of Hindustan Times after a two year lapse. A member of a clutch of think tanks of which his favourite is an Italian one that takes him to Tuscany most summers, he genuinely likes to muck about the ponderous economic and political issues that make the world turn. On the bright side, he likes chocolate, football and Old Monk Rum.
The invention of an inexpensive rotavirus vaccine may prove a greater contribution to food security than the Food Security Bill. [Read more]

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 1:34 am
Filed under India · Tagged diarrhoea, Food Security Bill, HINDUSTAN Times, malnourishment, news, pathogens, pramitpal chaudhari, rotavirus vaccine, shigella
One of the more curious global developments today is the closing, if you wish, of the British mind to immigration. Anti-immigration is now part of the policy platform of all the major political parties, though arguably strongest with the Conservatives. Britain is experiencing economic difficulties but is probably better off than many Western economies. And it isn’t race: brown and black migration peaked in then 1970s and 1980s. [Read more]

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 12:49 am
Filed under America, World · Tagged Anglo-Saxon, Anti-immigration, foreign hand, H-1b visa, HINDUSTAN Times, immigration reform bill, news, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Western economies
The Indian strategic community is in a dither, trying to work out why the Chinese have suddenly sent 40 troops 19 kilometres into territory that they have traditionally not even bothered to claim. [Read more]

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, May 3, 2013 at 2:37 am
Filed under India, World · Tagged chinese army, chinese incursion, Daulat Beg Oldie, Depsang, gwadar, india china border row, indian army, ladakh, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
The former Indian foreign secretary, Shyam Saran, gave a revealing speech on India’s nuclear deterrent on April 24th. The speech was titled, somewhat vaguely, “Is India’s Nuclear Deterrent Credible?” [Read more]

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Filed under India, World · Tagged Cabinet Committee on Security, foreign hand, HINDUSTAN Times, kiloton weapon, news, Nuclear Deterrent, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, pakistan, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri, Strategic Posture Review
Strobe Talbott, journalist, author of books and former deputy secretary of state, came to India last month having accomplished, as he said, “a dream going back 11 years.” That was when he joined as president of the Brookings Institute and concluded that after being around 85 years the venerable institution, probably the largest policy institute – think tank as the popular vernacular would have it – in the world. [Read more]

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged brooking institute, Centre of Civil Society, HINDUSTAN Times, Jaswant Singh, Parth Shah, Pokhran II nuclear tests, Pramit Pal Chaudhari, strobe talbott, think tanks