Harini Calamur's Writings
This piece on Big Tech and censorship appeared in the FPJ on the 7th of June 2021 On the 1st of June this year, Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari made his government’s equivalent of “goli maaro saalon ko” tweet. Sending out a stern…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 1st of March, 2021 The big tech giants have gotten so big that they have begun to pose a challenge to many democratically elected governments, threatening to upend entire societies, and systems in their insatiable…
This appeared in the FPJ Earlier this week, leading advertisers in the United States of America, did the unthinkable. In the face of mounting criticism about the role of social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, in spreading fake news and…
A few days ago Donald Trump, the President of the United States tweeted, as he usually does But, what was unusual was that twitter slapped a fact check label on this, that derailed the not very stable President of the US. He…
A few weeks ago, Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian, and the Chairman of Reliance Industries, spoke about something that has been, hitherto, the province of academics, and the left. He called for an end to data colonisation by large foreign MNC’s who…
My column in the DNA, earlier this week The Times of India’s stand is pretty much the same as that of khap panchayats – she was wearing revealing clothes, therefore she asked for it Last week, the Times of India, that claims…
My column in today’s DNA The 2008 American elections — also called the Facebook elections — were different from any other that was held before it. It was the first time that candidates across the board attempted to connect directly with the…