Harini Calamur's Writings
An additional 88 million people will slip back into extreme poverty because of Covid-19 in the best case scenario, and about 115 million in the worst case scenario. This is the worst reversal in poverty alleviation in almost thirty years,
Chanakya talked about Gudayuddha, or the secret war – that used clandestine methods, including misinformation, to win wars. Disinformation is not a modern phenomenon. It has been used for centuries, if not aeons.
The need of the hour is massive re-skilling of the existing workforce of many organisations
Farmers from four North Indian states – Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh — are currently in Delhi, protesting against the new laws pushed through by the Government that promise to transform agriculture. While the BJP calls it reform, the opposition and farmers’ groups call it a death sentence.
‘Love jihad’ is back in the news because BJP states are planning to bring in ordinances to prevent it. In the era of coronavirus and the economic devastation it has wreaked, states are busy fighting a bogey that does not exist. Probably because it is easier to fight a made-up enemy, than to deal with real issues.
The ability to be a giant tent under which a plethora of views coexist, has been gradually whittled away by the Indian National Congress
The term right wing was not always associated with bigots, misogynists, xenophobic, and others who want exclusionary policies to protect their inherited privilege. While there was fascism that was very clearly defined, it was never conflated with the conservative movement. Now, the distinction is not so clear
With battle lines being drawn between the fundamentalist secularists, and the fundamental Islamists – it looks a further period of strife in France, and in Europe.
Fair Tax Mark, the organisation that certifies organisations on their good tax practises, estimates that in the decade between 2010 and 2019, the Silicon Six – Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix – paid $100 billion less than they should have.
Right now, we have a twin problem of excess supply of foodgrain (flagged by the RBI), and an excess number of very hungry people. There seems to be something fundamentally flawed with a system that allows the pile-up of food at one end and ignores the hunger of almost 200 million people at the other.