Harini Calamur's Writings
My articles in Mainstream media
Salman Rushdie was stabbed by someone who was not even born when the Satanic Verses was published. I look at the fatwa, and the role of Governments in normalizing hate, for the FPJ Last week 75-year-old British Indian author Salman Rushdie was…
We are prone to fake news. Even the most suspicious and paranoid among us. I write about this in FPJ. Last week, French Scientist Étienne Klein posted a photograph on twitter, that made most gasp in awe and wonder. It was a…
At the start of the 1900s, Great Britain – a tiny island off the coast of Europe – ruled over a quarter of the world’s population and controlled more landmass than any other nation in history. Amongst the myths that have been…
I write about the Cost of Living Crisis threatening the economic stability of nations, and the food security of households. Last week, Dinesh Gunawardena took oath as the Prime Minister of Sr Lanka. A staunch ally and loyalist of the former Rajapaksa…
The news business models are broken. What remains are platforms that are trying to create strife to keep people watching. I write in the FPJ on this phenomenon Towards the end of May, on a televised live debate on a leading news…
I watch what I say because I am afraid that somebody in the back of beyond will get offended and file charges against me – and I would have to travel to that place regularly, till it is resolved. I write on…
I write for the FPJ on the issues with the break up of the Sena, on the 4th of July 2022. The Maharashtra political turmoil had all the masala that would make for an interesting Bollywood potboiler or an OTT series. As…
in light of the MVA crisis, i write about the problem of dynasty, in the FPJ They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. And we have seen this throughout the last century of the most unlikely alliances. Political marriages of convenience….
This appeared in the FPJ on the 20th of June Last week, the government announced two major initiatives. The first was to create 10 lakh (1 million) jobs in the government to absorb youth. The second was the Agnipath scheme aimed to…
I wrote on the airbrushing of Colonial History in the FPJ. The Islands of Great Britain and in an extended holiday mode. Their Queen celebrates 70 years of ascending the throne. Queen Elizabeth II’s reign started post the second world war, and…