Harini Calamur's Writings
For most of us who have worked in the media, and then chosen to leave MSM, the sting by CobraPost was not a major surprise. What was surprising was the extent of the rot. What was considered to be professional/legal lapses by…
My column in the DNA on October 16th 2014 “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” This…
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…
Brokering News Brokering News is a documentary on the Paid News in India. The phenomenon has spread far and wide and permeates every aspect of news in India. For most of us working in the media, the story of paid news is…
Jail Bharo or fill the jails is an interesting concept. Paralyse the administration, paralyse the police till your objective is met. There are many ways of getting to jail. The most simple way is to break the law. Preferably commit a crime….
My column in today’s DNA: If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to have heard it fall, does it make a sound?’ is an old philosophical question on which there has been much heated argument over the…
This is an adaptation of the session in Shala, organised by Takshashila In Tamil there is this concept of a – uppa kadai – based around both the epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The closest acceptable translation would be a…
Over 10 days after the story broke in the Open Magazine & Outlook, the rest of the media seems to have gotten into the act of covering the #Radiatapes – especially the ethics of journalists on the tapes. NDTV went first yesterday…
Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
A week has gone by, but MSM is yet to cover the story in a major concerted manner, though opinion pieces have begun emerging both in India and outside. I have begun compiling a list of all pieces in the MSM, here….