Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in the FPJ on the 8th of March 2021 The younger me abhorred International Woman’s Day. What about the other 364 days – I would fume. As someone who grew up in relative privilege – I wasn’t killed for being…
I write on what next for #Metoo – for CNBC-TV18 It has been almost 3 weeks since the #MeToo uprising took off in India. And, the impact has been staggering. A minister in the Union cabinet has resigned. Production houses have lost…
I wrote this a few weeks ago, for ABP This week, as a woman, I feel betrayed by the Indian System … Betrayed. Let down. Told women am not good enough to be considered equal. That, we don’t deserve equality, or the…
Modern Slavery is so invisible that most often it does not get detected. Slavery in the modern world, not just exist but is thriving. At any given time, some 16 million people around the world are victims of forced labour exploitation in…
When I returned to India, in 1994 from the United Kingdom, i was very aware of the fact that there was a very thick glass ceiling in Britain. Almost shatterproof glass. This is despite having Margret Thatcher, and the Queen in charge…
Speaking to The Indian Express, Maneka said, “Paternity leave can be considered only if, once the woman goes back to work after her 26 weeks of leave, we find that men are availing their sick leave for a month to take care…
(this first appeared on shethepeople.tv ) A headline caught my eye today, and made me grimace. “Chennai man killed by speeding Audi, police to determine if woman driver was drunk.” It made me ask the same question I seek to answer, every…
My column in the DNA on 9th January 2014 I joined the media in the mid-Nineties. The television industry was new, budgets were low and we all did everything — we wrote, directed, edited, ran about to find costumes, painted sets on…
My edit piece for Lokmat Times, on Women’s Day 8th March. International Women’s Day. It is a tradition that dates back almost a century earlier, when women were fighting for basic rights. Until then, even in the West, women were considered to…
My column in today’s DNA Budget for women: They need real help not gender apartheid In the last budget before the next General Elections, the Finance Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram could not rock any boats. Nor could he undertake the kind of massive spending…