Harini Calamur's Writings
This article appeared in the FPJ on 22nd February, 2021 Big Tech has grown to an extent where it can challenge the authority and might of the Nation State. And this power derivers from their monopoly control over our data sets arising…
The economies of nation-states across the world have taken a major hit from the COVID pandemic. But there have been some silent collateral benefits. As the world begins to rebuild the post COVID world it is important to look at those benefits…
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,
The need of the hour is massive re-skilling of the existing workforce of many organisations
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.
Fair Tax Mark, the organisation that certifies organisations on their good tax practises, estimates that in the decade between 2010 and 2019, the Silicon Six – Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Netflix – paid $100 billion less than they should have.
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.
The Indian economy needs a rapid infusion of disposable income in the hands of individual households to get out of the mess