Harini Calamur's Writings
My articles in Mainstream media
My column in today’s DNA 26/11. A day three years ago, when the average Mumbaikar’s sense of relative security was ripped out. It isn’t that Mumbai was a haven of security and peace. Quite the contrary. The last two decades had been…
The trouble with the kind of churn that has been going on for the last 18 months, not just in India but worldwide, is that you (rather I) tend to lose faith in humanity… Your anti corruption leaders fudge bills, sportsmen fight…
This appeared in the DNA as what next for team Anna ..a team that seems to be drowning under the weight of its own publicity .. The last fortnight has been an interesting time for Team Anna. A series of incidents…
My column in today’s DNA: If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to have heard it fall, does it make a sound?’ is an old philosophical question on which there has been much heated argument over the…
My column in Today’s DNA Odisha. Sikkim. Andhra Pradesh. Manipur. Natural disasters struck the first two states. Floods in Odisha impacted 2.2 million Indian citizens. People lost lives. Property was destroyed. Development washed away. Sikkim suffered an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the…
My column in today’s DNA It has been a decade since al-Qaeda took the war in the Middle East to the doorsteps of the Americans. 9/11 became a watershed moment for the ‘War on Terror’, with the US and its allies recognising…
My column in today’s DNA The events unfolding in Delhi are fascinating. Battered by scam after scam, with some of its ministers in jail, a punch drunk UPA 2 looks like a shadow of a government. Its other ministers and spokespersons have…
My column in today’s DNA: Most of us incur debt in our everyday lives. Buying goods on a credit card is undertaking debt. Buying a house with a loan is debt. So is buying a car. Taking a loan from a bank…
On the issue of crime and lack of punishment My Column in Yesterday’s DNA : We all know that when we go to a shop we ask for a bill, yet for a few rupees less or to save a minute or two, we don’t…
As a media professional and a media watcher – i can’t help but be deeply disappointed & disillusioned by the conduct of the media over the last 5+ years. It is almost as though they have collectively sold out. that disillusionment became anger with…