Only the naive would have expected Denmark to have extradited Kim Davy to India. The question not one of whether he was guilty or not guilty. Read more

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 11:26 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Aafia Siddiqui, Abu Salem, Anglo-Saxon legal systems, David Headley, extradition, HINDUSTAN Times, Kim Davy, Mohammad Hafiz Sayeed, news, Ottavio Quatrocchio, political crime, pramitpal chaudhuri, Roman Polanski, Romesh Bhandari, Warren Anderson
The Economist had done an economic map of China’s provinces and showing, roughly, that their provincial GDPs were of the size of the middle tier European countries and their per capita provincial GDPs akin to those of Latin American countries. Read more

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, June 24, 2011 at 1:18 am
Filed under World · Tagged Africa, China, economic map, foreign hand, GDP, growth rates, HINDUSTAN Times, Latin American countries, Maharashtra economy, news, PPP, PPP per capita, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
A new book on US foreign policy, The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Necons, from Nixon to Obama, by Len Colodny and Tom Shachtman, provides an opportunity to revisit President Richard Nixon’s decision to send the aircraft carrier, USS Enteprise, into the Bay of Bengal during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war. Read more

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, June 17, 2011 at 3:14 am
Filed under World · Tagged 1971 Indo-Pakistan war, HINDUSTAN Times, Kissinger, Len Colodny, Melvin Laird, news, Nixon, Pentagon, pramitpal chaudhuri, The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Necons, Thomas Moorer, Tom Shachtman, USS Enteprise
The Shangri-La Dialogue celebrated its 10th anniversary by trying to talk about China without mentioning it directly by name. Read more

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Asia, China, Chinese defence minister, Cold War, General Liang Guanglie, India, Indo-US relationship, International Institute for Strategic Studies Asia Security Summit, macau, Minister of state for defence, Pallam Raju, robert gates, Shangri-La Dialogue, somalia, somalian pirates, US, us secretary of defence
It is now common for one to find one or two Western interns working in my newspaper’s cubicle farm in New Delhi. Another group of older workers can be found in the management floors. Read more

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Posted by Pramit Pal Chaudhuri on Friday, June 3, 2011 at 12:00 am
Filed under World · Tagged asylum policy, foreign residents, H-1B visas, HINDUSTAN Times, interns, migration, Migration Policy Institute, news, professional expat, workers