Harini Calamur's Writings
Gender Issues -Mostly from India
Contrary to popular belief, the problem of domestic violence has not gone away. Nor is it restricted to the poor and poorly educated. It is rife in over a third of the households and seems to be Indian society’s best kept secrets….
I write on what next for #Metoo – for CNBC-TV18 It has been almost 3 weeks since the #MeToo uprising took off in India. And, the impact has been staggering. A minister in the Union cabinet has resigned. Production houses have lost…
#meToo – A shorter version of this appeared in CNBC TV18, this week Two Thousand years ago, there was a story of a woman’s anger that burnt down a city. The famous Tamil epic Silapadhikaram narrates the story of Kannagi and her…
I write for She the People on what next for #MeToo The #MeToo movement in India has erupted. It began as a trickle with Tanushree Dutta, and now it is a roar of stories that form part of the experiences women faced…
I write for CNBC TV18 on #MeToo It has been a year since the #MeToo campaign that triggered a mass outpouring of stories of sexual harassment, and managed to kneecap a number of sexual predators across geographies. The ripples of #metoo are…
As the Kerala Nun fights for justice, the Indian state has to stand firmly for the rights of the individual. I write for Firstpost The Oscar winning film Spotlight looked at the investigation into child sex abuse by priests of the Catholic…
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…
i wrote this for ABP, earlier this month : Women talking about Sexual Harassment – It began as a whisper, then it became a murmur of voices, and then it became a shout that is still reverberating across the world. “I…
I wrote this a few weeks ago, for ABP This week, as a woman, I feel betrayed by the Indian System … Betrayed. Let down. Told women am not good enough to be considered equal. That, we don’t deserve equality, or the…
#WomenBoycottTwitter was on the 13th of October. Many women i know, and a fair few men, stayed off twitter, to protest against (non transparent rules) that suspend those who protest against violence, and spare those who do, or threaten to do violence….