Harini Calamur's Writings
This piece on Minimum Income Guarantee appeared in CNBC-TV18 here The conversation around an income guarantee for the poor is not new. In the Economic Survey of India 2016-17, the then chief economic advisor to the Government of India, Arvind Subramaniam had…
Between a terrible outlook on trade in the future, and the replacement of workers by robots domestically – there is going to be a massive shrinking of the workforce.A number of assembly lines, across industries, are completely operated by robots. Since the…
I wrote this for CNBC TV 18, a few weeks ago on Public Safety and India. An edited version of this piece, appeared on the site Last week, a three-storey building collapsed in Jodhpur. There were many injuries. I couldn’t ascertain whether…
The economies of the world are built on women’s unpaid work in the household and in the economy . It is time to redress this. I write for CNBC-TV18 Last fortnight, I had the opportunity to visit two villages, in Rajasthan and…
Farmer Protests have been spreading like wild fire, and dominating the media discourse. It all began with an election promise — loan waivers in UP, and the chickens have come home to roost. I write for the ABP India is going through an…
My column in today’s DNA Nature’s fury. Human blunder. Himalayan tsunami. These are just some of the hyperbolic terms used to describe the cloudburst, flash floods and the subsequent devastation that has wracked Uttarakhand over the last week or so. But, this…
I have known and worked with the people at SEEDS India for almost 6 years. i have worked with them in documenting the post Tsunami response and was awed by their focus on making communities impacted by disasters self sufficient. They work…
“It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the OBC and the scheduled castes and no increasingly, scheduled tribes and as long as this is the case the Indian Republic will survive” – Ashish Nandy I have been told…
What is development ? it is security to be who you are…. school girls playing kho kho in the area between the school and the temple. Sanaswadi, Shiroor, Pune District Maharashtra Girls in School, look at the smiles – you can’t buy…
My column in today’s DNA Way back in 1964, media theorist and technological determinist Marshall McLuhan stated, “The medium is the message”, a line that has been quoted extensively. McLuhan’s work looked at the impact of communication and communications technology on culture….