Harini Calamur's Writings
I wrote about the Indian Economy’s midlife crisis, in the FPJ on the 26th of July 2021 On July 24th, 1991, Dr Manmohan Singh presented the Union Government’s budget to parliament. India was at a political and economic crossroads. In the months…
I wrote about Global Warming and Factory Farming, and the problems of sustaining the demand for meat, for the FPJ on the 12th of July 2021 Last month temperatures across the world spiked. “Heat wave” screamed the headlines. In parts of Northern…
This piece on Remote Working and Small Town India appeared in the FPJ, on the 28th of June My attachment to my city of birth, Mumbai, is huge. I love the city. But, last year, In the midst of the first COVID…
This column on the Apathy of the Indian Middle Class appeared on the 14th of June 2021 For the growing Indian upper Middle Class, the second wave of COVID has been a revelation. For the first time in 30+ years we have…
This appeared in FPJ on the 24th of May After a year of COVID, there seemed to be the first glimmer of hope around February- March this year. things seemed to be looking up. We were reading about cases dropping, people recovering….
This appeared in FPJ on the 5th of April 2021 Every year, since 2006, the World Economic Forum has been minutely analysing gender gaps and releasing reports. It looks at gender equality on 4 major parameters –Economic, Educational, Political Participation, and Health…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 29th of March, 2021 Last week, a ship got stuck in a canal, and brought international trade to a gridlocked traffic jam. The ship called “Ever Given’ is a 400-metre container ship, that was transporting…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 22nd of March, 2021 Last week, two stories went relatively unnoticed. The first was Manipal Institute being declared a containment zone, after 50+ cases of COVID were detected. The second was over 100 students in…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 15th of March, 2021 Last Fortnight, the Freedom Report, by the US think tank Freedom House, downgraded India’s rankings to “Partly Free”. The Swedish V-Dem Institute, released its report a week later and downgraded India…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 8th of March 2021 The younger me abhorred International Woman’s Day. What about the other 364 days – I would fume. As someone who grew up in relative privilege – I wasn’t killed for being…