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Hamsini Hariharan

Jan 27, 20202 min read

Ushering in the Year of the Rat

A peek into Chinese Spring Festival and traditions

Hamsini Hariharan

Jan 20, 20202 min read

Can India compete with China?

Without an economy that does well, India will find it difficult to project itself as a country in the same league as China. After all, no on

Hamsini Hariharan

Jan 13, 20203 min read

'Wan Wan' is at home in herself

Taiwan’s highest voter turnout chose to re-elect Tsai Ing-wen who still needs innovative policies for the next five years.

Hamsini Hariharan

Jan 6, 20203 min read

Old Relationships, New Milestones

As we celebrate seventy years of Sino-Indian relations in 2020, it is good to remember the words of KM Pannikar, India’s first ambassador to

Hamsini Hariharan

Dec 30, 20192 min read

Everyone wants a Beijing Hukou

China’s reform of the hukou system has to extend to providing better public services in rural areas.

Lessons from a 100-year-old students' protest

Hamsini Hariharan

Dec 23, 20192 min read

Lessons from a 100-year-old students' protest

The May Fourth Movement should remind us that universities do not manufacture outrage but lead it.

Hamsini Hariharan

Dec 16, 20193 min read

How China is reclaiming its artworks

For China, repatriation of Chinese art has become a low-level foreign policy issue.

How China keeps its streets safe for women

Hamsini Hariharan

Dec 10, 20193 min read

How China keeps its streets safe for women

In China, issues of public safety are not law and order problems like they are in India.

A Constitution without constitutionalism

Hamsini Hariharan

Dec 3, 20193 min read

A Constitution without constitutionalism

As China celebrates its Constitution Day on 04 December, it is important to ask if law transcends politics.

Combating air pollution in New Delhi with Chinese caveats

Hamsini Hariharan

Nov 25, 20193 min read

Combating air pollution in New Delhi with Chinese caveats

Beijing does have a lot of pollution-combat lessons for New Delhi, particularly with regards to monitoring and cutting vehicular emissions.

Book Review: Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers.

Hamsini Hariharan

Oct 30, 20194 min read

Book Review: Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers.

This book review first appeared in The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs 2019 (Winter Edition).

Can the Wuhan spirit guide the Mamallapuram meet?

Hamsini Hariharan

Oct 11, 20193 min read

Can the Wuhan spirit guide the Mamallapuram meet?

As Xi Jinping visits South India, border issues should not be allowed to dominate the discourse.

Hamsini Hariharan

Sep 30, 20194 min read

What India Can Learn From China

In India, the Chinese experience is spoken about in tones of awe, forgetting the very context in which some of those policies were enacted.

Hamsini Hariharan

Mar 26, 20196 min read

Gender: Here Comes the Womanifesto!

This section of the Pragati Manifesto outlines how to make life better for women. To start with, strike down some horrendous laws.

Hamsini Hariharan

Feb 12, 20193 min read

The Exotic Life of a Diplomat

The Ambassador’s Club is an important scholarly work and a great read for anyone interested in Indian foreign policy.

Hamsini Hariharan

Nov 29, 20181 min read

10 Years Later: The 26/11 Attacks

This is Episode 71 of The Pragati Podcast hosted by Hamsini Hariharan and Pavan Srinath. It has been 10 years since the 2008 Terrorist...

Hamsini Hariharan

Nov 27, 20184 min read

The Seas of Citizenship

Crossing the Bay of Bengal uses the sea as a lens to study nationalism and migration. It paves the path for new approaches to political phen

Hamsini Hariharan

Oct 10, 20184 min read

A Crimson Red Balancing Act

An explainer on foreign policy using lessons from popular culture. In Installment 4, Balance of Power runs through Chekka Chivantha Vaanam.

Hamsini Hariharan

Oct 3, 20183 min read

The Weak Are Meat and the Strong Do Eat

An explainer on foreign policy using lessons from popular culture. In Installment 3, Hugo Weaving explains how Power works in the internatio

Hamsini Hariharan

Oct 1, 20181 min read

Metrics of Empowerment

This is Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen, the weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma. The lives of women in India must be gradually...

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