Harini Calamur's Writings
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NYAY – the Congress’ minimum income guarantee programme – i write in CNBC-TV18 In January, Rahul Gandhi, the President of the Congress Party, tweeted “We cannot build a new India while millions of our brothers & sisters suffer the scourge of poverty. …
This appeared in CNBC TV18 At 91, LK Advani finally fades into the sunset. There is no grand send off for the patriarch of the Bhartiya Janata Party, no celebration of the fact that he – through his much debated methods –…
Jacinda Arden became the face of compassion and leadership in the aftermath of the New Zealand Terror attack. I write about her, and the need for more women in politics in CNBC TV18 Jacinda Ardern. Most of us had barely heard of…
Elections 2019 seems shorn of issues, i write for CNBC TV18 The bugle has been sounded, and the race is underway. For the next two months or so, the big political parties and alliances, in India, will be competing towards getting the…
Post Balakot the Government messed up the communication to the nation at large. I write for CNBC-TV18 For a party that was so good at controlling the narrative in the pre-2014 scenario, the BJP has been floundering on the communication front. Be…
The Balakot Strikes : This appeared on CNBC-TV18 In the wee hours of the morning, on the 26th of February, a dozen Mirage fighters dropped guided surface to air missiles on a terrorist camp in Balakot, Pakistani. This was not just in…
I wrote on the Trolls of Trollistan for CNBC-TV 18 On Valentine’s day, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus ferrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans and murdered 40 soldiers. The terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed responsibility….
I write about the face off between Twitter and the Indian Parliament for CNBC – TV18 At the core of the stand-off between the Indian Parliament’s standing committee on Information technology and Twitter is the perception by the Indian right wing that…
I wrote this on Digital Publishing for CNBC-TV18 About five years ago, if you had asked anyone in the media to look into the crystal ball and predict the future of news, the answer would have been simple. Digital media companies such…
This piece on Minimum Income Guarantee appeared in CNBC-TV18 here The conversation around an income guarantee for the poor is not new. In the Economic Survey of India 2016-17, the then chief economic advisor to the Government of India, Arvind Subramaniam had…