Harini Calamur's Writings
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This appeared in the FPJ, and was my year end piece. As a school student, one of the most inspirational scenes in cinema, for me, was from the movie Gandhi. It centered around unarmed satyagrahis facing batons and bullets, with calmness, as…
Elon Musk bought Twitter a month ago, and ever since that incident, it seems like a free for all slugfest. Musk conducted public polls to restore the accounts of many, including former US President Donald Trump, American Rapper Kayne West, Canadian Psychologist…
Despite the best attempts of Government, legislature, judiciary, and some parts of the citizenry, in many cases the sheer ugliness of patriarchy rears its head and puts paid to all that has been achieved. I write for FPJ This week, a young…
I did a short piece for Founding Fuel on this The first thing that will strike you about Mastodon is how extraordinarily polite it is. Most of these people who are so incredibly nice and helpful, are also there on the ‘hellsite’….
Mastodon, and sites like that, are part of the federated universe, what the original internet was supposed to be – a bunch of servers, interlinked and interoperable – that cater to different interests and needs. My column for the FPJ, Named after…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 5th of November. And, this column like many others, appears dated in a fortnight – as the hellsite goes through multiple shocks to its system. $44 billion. The price to buy the blue bird, that…
Indian MSM seems to have a propensity towards carrying fake news. It is almost like all their editorial filters are fogged up by social media. I write for FPJ About 10 days ago, there was a sudden flurry of activity on social…
this piece appeared in the FPJ. There is a photograph making its mark on the internet. No one quite knows its origin or source. It is a photograph of a flag fluttering in the sky. However, unlike most flags, this is not…
Last week Russia shut down the pipeline that supplied natural gas to Europe. The Russian energy major, Gazprom, said it was for routine maintenance and would be restored in a few days. However, they have now said there are major leaks that…
Climate Change is here. it is real. And, it has reached those who thought themselves invulnerable to it. As climate change moves from impacting poor brown (and black people) to hurt the rich and wealthy, hopefully, there will be some action. I…