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'''Virupax Ganesh “VG” Kulkarni''' (1937-2014), was a Hong Kong-based journalist and Regional Editor of the [[Far Eastern Economic Review]].

==Early years==
Kulkarni was born in India in 1937 to a noted Brahmin family and served in the Indian Army, rising to major before being sent to serve in Hong Kong at the Indian consulate there. Kulkarni pursued Chinese studies in Hong Kong, meeting fellow student American [[Suzanne Pepper]] there in the 1960s. After marrying, he left Hong Kong with Pepper for New York where he was employed by [[United Press International]] after graduating in Journalism at [[Columbia University]]'s School of Journalism. The Kulkarnis returned to Hong Kong in 1973.<ref name=AAM>{{cite web|url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wOCwrjdLOawJ:https://www.asiaasset.com/aam/2014-12/1214_obituary.aspx+&cd=100&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=hk&client=firefox-b|title=A Man of his Words|last=Stargardt|first=Julian|website=Asia Asset Management|date=2014}}</ref>

==Career in Hong Kong==
Kulkarni began his Hong Kong career at the [[Hong Kong Standard]] newspaper. He later joined the Manila-based Press Foundation of Asia. He then began a long career at the [[Far Eastern Economic Review]] where, having begun as Singapore correspondent in the 1980s, he rose to regional editor. He wrote extensively on China and the region and, apart from the Review, his reports appeared in ''[[Asia Asset Management]]'', '''Depthnews''', India’s ''[[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]'' journal, and the ''[[Christian Science Monitor]]''.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=South China Morning Post|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1614695/veteran-journalist-dies-hong-kongs-foreign-correspondents-club|title=Veteran journalist dies at Hong Kong's Foreign Correspondents' Club|date=12 October 2014}}</ref><ref name= AAM />

Kulkarni was a key figure in the Hong Kong Security Studies Group of the [[Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong|Foreign Correspondents' Club]], formed from local scholars and diplomats.<ref name= AAM />

==References==
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