Harini Calamur's Writings
This piece on unpaid women’s wage – paying for women’s work – appeared in the FPJ on the 4th of January: The COVID pandemic has exposed how fragile the world’s move towards equality and equity is. Across the world, the most economically…
I write for the FPJ on the 28th of December, on the ways in which the economies of the world were changed forever. “On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology (unknown cause)…
An additional 88 million people will slip back into extreme poverty because of Covid-19 in the best case scenario, and about 115 million in the worst case scenario. This is the worst reversal in poverty alleviation in almost thirty years,
Farmers from four North Indian states – Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh — are currently in Delhi, protesting against the new laws pushed through by the Government that promise to transform agriculture. While the BJP calls it reform, the opposition and farmers’ groups call it a death sentence.
Right now, we have a twin problem of excess supply of foodgrain (flagged by the RBI), and an excess number of very hungry people. There seems to be something fundamentally flawed with a system that allows the pile-up of food at one end and ignores the hunger of almost 200 million people at the other.
This appeared in the FPJ There still seems no end in sight to the COVID crisis. There is the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V, but across the world scientists have raised a red flag at the rush to hit the market at the…
As India eases the COVID lockdown, this is what is terrifying. The only curve that has flattened seems to be that of the economy. The cases of infection are rising. And, then you see a tweet like this from a CM of…
There is a humanitarian crisis unfolding in front of our eyes, and yet despite story after story that hits our screens, there seems to be nothing that seems to be abating the anguish and heartbreak of those walking home from the cities…
Yesterday, on my twitter TL, was a man lamenting about his life. He is a senior executive in some company, has two kids, and mentioned his wife doesn’t work. I am not putting up a screenshot or linking to that thread, because…
The water crisis is upon us. I write for CNBC-TV18 It was a tweet by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s disaster management handle @mybmc that brought home the ludicrousness of the water woes in the country. They said, “6 pumping stations of MCGM…