Harini Calamur's Writings
I wrote on Internet Trolls, Troll Hunting and Censorship, for the ABP Sometime last year, the Pew Research centre, conducted an extensive research on the nature of the internet, and asked “In the next decade, will public discourse online become more or less…
My column, in last week’s DNA In the last three days there have been two instances of suppression of expression due to ‘hurt’ sentiments and political beliefs. The first was the independent publisher Navayana that is focused on literary works based on…
An edited version of this appears in the Lokmat Times The United Kingdom has been reeling under the impact of scandal after scandal to hit the news industry, especially the role of news in tapping phones to get scoops. An official Inquiry…
A few days ago, I didn’t know there was a rapper called Yo Yo Honey Singh (no, seriously) Hardly surprising given that the main form of music that i consume is Hindustani Classical Vocal. Â Yet, today i know more about him than…
My Column in Today’s DNA Chaos theory is that branch of mathematics that looks at how random results arise from supposedly ‘normal’ events. The most popular representation of this is the Butterfly effect. The basic premise is “a butterfly flaps its wings…
My column in today’s DNA A utopian society is an ideal one, which is represented by a perfect balance of happy citizens, a responsible state, a cohesive society – where everyone lives happily ever after. In a Utopian society, there is…
60 years after the above cartoon was published, some MP’s had an issue with it being included in a NCERT textbook way back in 1996. Ironically the textbook was called “The Indian Constitution at Work” What also bothers me is that ‘offense’…
Before I begin this post, a few of declarations : a) post 26/11 I believed, and still do, that some news channels should have lost their licenses because I believed that they put lives at risk b) post 26/11, my revulsion at…
This from India Today In the midst of a debate on monitoring content, a Delhi court has restrained social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Youtube from webcasting any “anti-religious” or “anti-social” content promoting hatred or communal disharmony. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh…
Mr.Sibal, Union Minister for IT and Communications, was quoted on two very interesting points by First Post a) Though the reach of social media is large, number who use it are limited. We are only getting an elitist viewpoint b) We want…