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Articles by Krittivas Mukherjee
This Nepal band uses music to heal earthquake scars, seek help
As the scale of devastation from last week’s earthquake unfolds, people across Nepal are looking out for each other, with many turning to music to help overcome grief and seek help for survivors.
Updated on May 02, 2015 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Kathmandu
Earthquake-devastated Nepal struggles to heal its emotional scars
At a helpdesk in Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, a small group of glum-faced people wait their turn to see a doctor, hoping she will free them from a never-ending moment of horror when they lost their homes and loved ones.
Updated on May 02, 2015 06:36 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Kathmandu
A Nepal newborn's name in earthquake relief camp is cause for joy
He survived a massive earthquake that pummelled his home and endured the cold nights in squalid campsites, but 11-day-old Bhupinder Karki is not only thriving but also perhaps enjoying his newfound celebrity status at Nepal’s biggest camp for quake survivors.
Updated on May 02, 2015 02:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Kathmandu
In Nepal’s biggest earthquake camp, another disaster in making
Long a venue for royal horse races and colourful military parades, the sprawling Tundikhel ground in the heart of Nepal’s ruined capital has turned into a refugee camp of piling filth and overflowing public toilets.
Updated on May 01, 2015 03:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Kathmandu
Earthquake-hit Nepalis empty out homes, shops and dreams
Srikrishna Khatri’s knickknack shop is among the few buildings still standing in this quake-hit Nepali town, but it’s only now after a week that he is back in the store to empty it out.
Updated on Apr 30, 2015 05:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Sangachowk, Nepal
Overflowing tent hospitals show earthquake-hit Nepal’s medical crisis
As nurses held her down for an anti-tetanus shot into a deep gash on her belly, the baby shrieked in pain. But the lone doctor had little time to console the one-and-half-year old who had come under a slab of stone.
Updated on Apr 30, 2015 12:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Chautara, Nepal
In earthquake-devastated Nepal, aid boxes pile up as victims despair
For the past five days since a killer earthquake flattened his two-storey mud house, Tham Bahadur has had only one mission – to retrieve the family ration of rice, maize and lentils in what used to be the first floor kitchen.
Updated on Apr 29, 2015 11:05 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Sindhupalchowk, Nepal
‘Reality TV-like suicide’ unlikely to sway PM Narendra Modi on land bill
Prime Minister Narendra Modi may come under added political pressure on the contentious land bill following the suicide by a farmer to protest against the move, but the incident is unlikely to force the government to back down from its plans.
Updated on Apr 23, 2015 09:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Here are the key takeaways from Jaitley's Union Budget 2015-16
Finance minister Arun Jaitley laid out on Saturday a budget aimed at reigniting rapid growth, seeking to offer respite to the highly-taxed corporates as well as a promise of abundant jobs and social security to millions of Indians.
Updated on Mar 01, 2015 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
HT@15: Aiming for the next milestone in Madhya Pradesh
You are holding in your hands a bond of love and commitment made to Madhya Pradesh this day fifteen years ago. Yes, it’s our special anniversary supplement, a media milestone in a state that has perhaps seen more changes than any other region over this period of time.
Updated on Feb 22, 2015 08:13 PM IST
None | Krittivas Mukherjee, Editor, Bhopal
Delhi results make Modi's work on reforms difficult, budget holds key
Results from the vote showed that neither the middle class nor the low-income migrant working population of Delhi identified with Modi's agenda of governance.
Updated on Feb 10, 2015 02:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
POTUS visit catalyses radical change in India's stance on China
India may no longer be unwilling to act to offset a rising China in Asia-Pacific, aligning its strategic vision for the region with that of the United States in what seems a radical departure from New Delhi’s history of independent foreign policy.
Updated on Jan 28, 2015 10:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Sirisena is new Sri Lankan president: What it means for ties with India
Rajapaksa's ouster could once again bring the shine back in ties between India and Sri Lanka, whose historically friendly relations have entangled of late in a wider contest for influence between New Delhi and Beijing.
Updated on Jan 10, 2015 08:13 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Rajapaksa defeat: 5 things likely to change in India-Sri Lanka relations
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat in his bid for a third term in office on Friday, a result unthinkable just weeks ago for a confident leader hoping to cash in on his economic record.
Updated on Jan 09, 2015 02:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
In Jharkhand, tribes bear the cross of conversion politics
Some 26% of Jharkhand’s population today is tribal. For most of the 19th century Christian missionaries converted many of them, both by inducement and coercion. But the region became riven by conversion politics after RSS started its counter campaign in 1970s.
Updated on Dec 02, 2014 08:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Daltonganj
‘Crimetown’ Wasseypur gangs up for clean politics, development
For most of Wasseypur's 200,000 inhabitants, the struggle is for a better life, hoping that clean, honest politicians will help alter its squalid veneer and image of a shadowy slum of petty thieves and armed adolescent fighters.
Updated on Nov 29, 2014 09:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Dhanbad
In Modi's 'Make in India' push, key lies in Jharkhand
Except for a few rickety trucks bouncing up and down the rutted roads, it is hard to tell that buried under the russet ground of this west Jharkhand region is some of the world’s largest, untouched deposits of high-grade coal and bauxite.
Updated on Nov 29, 2014 09:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, Chandwa
After ‘roti, kapda aur makaan’, India now needs more
In the run up to the parliamentary elections earlier this year, before Narendra Modi rode to power in New Delhi, the man meant different things to different people: Some saw him creating masses of jobs and bringing down prices, others were certain he was going to weed out corruption and fix everything that ailed India’s healthcare and education.
Updated on Nov 25, 2014 01:46 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Death by sterilisation in India: Chhattisgarh is just one horror
The death of 13 women at a state-run sterilisation camp underlines flagrant violation of rules on implementing population stabilising campaigns as well as inadequate monitoring of such projects by health authorities across India.
Updated on Nov 12, 2014 07:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
The Chhattisgarh lesson: Cash-for-sterilisation drive maybe masking grave tragedy
Government figures show 1,434 sterilisation deaths between 2003 and 2012, with 2009 being the worst year with a maximum of 247 deaths. On an average, 12 deaths occurred every month over the last 10 years.
Updated on Nov 11, 2014 05:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
One wedding and four convictions, the unravelling of Jayalalithaa
Back in 1995, much before India’s unapologetic embrace of ritz, one of the country’s top politicians staged a wedding for her foster son, a show of such royal opulence that it was to ultimately prove to be her political undoing.
Updated on Sep 28, 2014 10:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
From lighter rocket to slingshot, Isro innovates its way to Mars
More than three decades on, as the MOM slipped into the red planet’s orbit on Wednesday, it was still, in part, the same amazing story of endless tweaking and recycling of delicate equipment to keep costs down and tide over technology constraints. HT interactives :Ride the Mangalyaan | MOM sensors
Updated on Sep 24, 2014 07:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Is aggression a China ploy to keep India in check?
An escalation of the border dispute may, in reality, reflect Beijing's more deep-seated concern about a restive generation of Tibetans growing up in India that their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, does not control.
Updated on Sep 21, 2014 12:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Uttarakhand to Kashmir, man's folly compounds nature's fury
Four days of torrential rains have unleashed a trail of destruction unseen for six decades in Kashmir, a disaster that is perhaps as much a man-made blunder in the pursuit of greater economic growth as a merciless act of nature.
Updated on Sep 09, 2014 02:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
RSS Hindutva rhetoric puts PM Modi on sticky wicket
The RSS’ rising Hindutva rhetoric may be aimed at making gains in several election-bound states but it also turns the heat on Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a time when parts of north and central India are witnessing a spurt in low-level communal violence, analysts say.
Updated on Aug 19, 2014 12:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Narendra Modi's tough talk on Pakistan's proxy war may undermine Nawaz Sharif
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks Tuesday that Pakistan had lost the power to fight a conventional war and, instead, is waging proxy war on India is unlikely to go down well in Islamabad.
Updated on Aug 13, 2014 08:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
India's WTO stand: The fight is for country's hungry millions
India has come under attack for ditching a pact to facilitate global trade, but New Delhi is far from playing party-pooper, having taken a stand to provide a modicum of decent life to its poor who still often go hungry. Vote:Are Western powers arm-twisting India?
Updated on Aug 01, 2014 07:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
Dealing with India’s right-wing cultural outrage machine
Books are getting pulped and authors are forced to rewrite; song lyrics change and films and art exhibition are being banned as the vigilantes use India's loosely worded hate-speech and blasphemy laws to muzzle cultural liberalism, writes Krittivas Mukherjee.
Updated on Jul 30, 2014 12:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi
New juvenile law must not succumb to 'lynch-mob coterie'
Any change in existing juvenile justice laws must strike a balance between reformation and punishment after taking into view a cut-off age. It must not be informed by emotion because a kneejerk judicial system will not help us solve the problem of serious delinquency.
Updated on Jul 15, 2014 04:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee
Hope and hype: PM Modi's 'thank you voter' budget a victim of his own success
So high are the expectations from PM Modi that the budget has failed to generate the kind of euphoria usually associated with anything bearing his stamp. The budget, thus, appears to have become a victim of Modi's own success. Full text of speech | Poll : Rate the budget on a scale of 0 to 5
Updated on Jul 11, 2014 11:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Krittivas Mukherjee, New Delhi