Despite best efforts by SLFP-UNP government to renegotiate port deals and avoid debt trap, Sri Lanka's sovereignty could still be challenged by Chinese enlargement
Sanjay Kapoor Hambantota & Colombo
Sanjay Kapoor
Editor of Delhi's Hardnews magazine and author of Bad Money Bad Politics- the untold story of Hawala scandal.
Post date: Thursday, September 14, 2017 - 14:02
Post date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 - 17:47
India wasn’t like this. The corrupt, the crooked and those who were impacted by investigative and adversarial journalism did not outright kill a reporter or an editor if he did not really relent.
Post date: Friday, September 8, 2017 - 14:41
As the BJP government runs a vitriolic campaign against one of the most influential leaders India had ever seen—Jawaharlal Nehru—and tries to discredit his ideals of secularism at a time when the Indian society is more fractured than ever, one must stop and ask where are we headed
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Friday, September 1, 2017 - 18:34
The RBI’s report on demonetisation is a damning critique of the government’s decision and shows how it had no clue about the move’s implications or how bad it will hurt the economy
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Monday, August 28, 2017 - 22:08
The end of the two-month-long standoff between India and China leaves several questions in its wake: who succeeded over whom, why did India pull its troops back and what happens next
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Monday, August 14, 2017 - 16:14
Hidden in the narrative of progress, the expansion of a new imperial China has many South and South Asian countries worried
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 15:43
For long the party has lost its connection with the masses and it has been outsourcing its struggle to smaller parties and even NGOs
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 13:27
As Brazil reels under a political crisis, Ambassador Tovar da Silva Nunes speaks to Hardnews about the current situation in the country and the scope and depth of the relationship it shares with India
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 - 12:32
NDTV’s promoter, Prannoy Roy, did not conceal his gratification at the solidarity expressed by media persons and several superannuated editors at the Press Club in New Delhi after his premises were raided. Most of the speakers reminisced about the dark days when Indira Gandhi declared an internal emergency and smothered the press. In the reckoning of these worthies, the country was sliding inexorably towards similar media darkness and it was a matter of time before some kind of emergency – in the name of terrorism – is imposed once again.
Post date: Monday, June 19, 2017 - 13:40
The current claustrophobic squeeze imposed on Qatar is part of a larger game being played out between the coalitions led by Saudi Arabia and Iran
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Post date: Friday, May 19, 2017 - 13:38
On May 5, the Indian space agency fired a meteorological and communication satellite to provide mapping and early warning to countries of South Asia including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan,
Post date: Friday, May 19, 2017 - 13:00
The Chinese are working relentlessly to undermine the authority of the Dalai Lama. Their intransigent campaign could mean that Beijing appoints his spiritual successor
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi