Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in the FPJ on April 19th 2001 A scan of the news channels, a glance at an Indian timeline on Twitter, a glimpse at the newspaper, will confirm just one thing. COVID is back, and this time it is worse…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 12th of April A 100 million vaccinations done. Over a ten million of these were the second vaccination. India’s doctors, nurses, public health administrators and others have done a stellar job in kickstarting the vaccination…
This appeared in FPJ on the 5th of April 2021 Every year, since 2006, the World Economic Forum has been minutely analysing gender gaps and releasing reports. It looks at gender equality on 4 major parameters –Economic, Educational, Political Participation, and Health…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 29th of March, 2021 Last week, a ship got stuck in a canal, and brought international trade to a gridlocked traffic jam. The ship called “Ever Given’ is a 400-metre container ship, that was transporting…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 22nd of March, 2021 Last week, two stories went relatively unnoticed. The first was Manipal Institute being declared a containment zone, after 50+ cases of COVID were detected. The second was over 100 students in…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 15th of March, 2021 Last Fortnight, the Freedom Report, by the US think tank Freedom House, downgraded India’s rankings to “Partly Free”. The Swedish V-Dem Institute, released its report a week later and downgraded India…
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…
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 article appeared in the FPJ on 22nd February, 2021 Big Tech has grown to an extent where it can challenge the authority and might of the Nation State. And this power derivers from their monopoly control over our data sets arising…
This appeared in the FPJ, on the 15th of February As Twitter faces off with the Indian Government, it forms an interesting precedence for the way social media platforms interact in countries, and societies – and brings into question the role of…