Harini Calamur's Writings
My articles in Mainstream media
My blog for Tehelka, last week It is impossible to look at 26/11 and not discuss the role of the Media – especially TV news channels. As important as discussing the role of broadcast news, is also to ask if they…
My column in today’s DNA In the recent past, the issue of free speech and expression has come to the fore in India. Censorship has been creeping up slowly but surely. It seems that institutions and groups are ganging up to…
My last week’s post on the Tehelka blog platform, on the anniversary of 26/11 40 years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the Munich Olympics. Athletes and sportsmen from all over had come to represent their Nations and win glory for…
My column in today’s DNA The UK is in the throes of a major scandal involving a child sex abuse ring and the attempts of the establishment to cover it up for over four decades. At the centre of the ring is…
from this week i begin blogging on Tehelkablog …. the first of these is on the social media war between the Hamas and the Israel Defense Force (IDF) The Middle East crisis is as old as history. Different people, different kingdoms, different…
My column in today’s DNA Dominant narrative is a set of values, practises and norms that most in that society believe to be true and important. It is ideology that shapes the telling of history, the creation of heroes, and the…
My column in today’s DNA Trial by media: Kejriwal is simply on a witch-hunt Madame Defarge is one of the most terrifying characters in modern English fiction. She makes her appearance in A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’ novel on the…
My column in today’s DNA It is difficult being a woman and read the papers or watch the news and not pull out your hair in sheer frustration at the views being expressed on gender. On Gandhi Jayanti the Union Minister for…
My column in today’s DNA The cornerstone of a free market economy is competition – many suppliers who compete against each other for the attention and custom of the consumer. For the buyer there is a diversity of products to choose from,…
My Column in today’s DNA Slow-wave sleep (SWS), is the slumber that is not just most restful, but also the most difficult to interrupt. It is the sleep where you have fallen so deep into a shutdown mode, that it would take…