Harini Calamur's Writings
The World Press Freedom Index is out, and it shows that India has fallen from 133 last year to 136 this year. Which means, that according to the report, press freedom has gotten worse. The reasons : With Hindu nationalists trying to purge…
On World Book Day – that day in the year, where we celebrate our love for books. I hav always liked books. I used to be a fairly lonely child, and books were an escape to another world. I was a fairly…
Sonu Nigam set the cat amongst the pigeons yesterday, when early in the morning, he had a series of tweets on being woken up by the azaan on a loudspeaker. Suddenly before you know it, the conversation is not on a peeved…
Main Stream Media, has to carry a lot of the responsibility for Fake News. As the media cries wolf, more often than not, it needs to revisit the fable to know what happened in the end. I write for ABP Once upon…
I write for the DNA on Watson, and the advances due to Artificial Intelligence, on Medicine. When the history of this new millennium is written, there will at least be a chapter on one of the most fascinating intelligences of this century,…
The Supreme Court order on banning the sale of alcohol 500 meteres close to State and National Highways, will not just impact jobs and taxes, but have little perceptible impact on drunken driving. I write for ABP About 20 years ago, a…
From today’s dna, my tribute to Kishori Amonkar When I first heard Kishori Amonkar sing, I must have been in my early teens. I had grown up listening to more conventional classical singers, Bhimsen Joshi, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Veena Sahasrabuddhe, Amir…