Harini Calamur's Writings
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a measure of the purity of air, the lower the level of AQI, the better the quality of air, and as it increases, it becomes more and more dangerous for consumption by most forms of life….
This appeared on the CNBC Tv18 website One of the more familiar tropes in Hollywood is that of the intelligent machine, that sees human kind as a threat to its survival and annihilates people. In the film 2001 Space Odyssey, the AI…
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…
Chris Paine’s documentary film “Do you Trust this Computer” is a look in to the world of unregulated cross border digital giants, the quest for Artificial Intelligence, and what could happen if Artificial Intelligence decides that humanity is going to stand in…
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with a report that looked at the implications of a 1.5 degrees Celcius rise in average temperature across the world. The prognosis is dire. The findings say that unless the…
#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 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…
I write for CNBC TV18 on the Aadhaar Judgement Does the State have the right to know all information about its citizens, via a single large shared database that is linked to all government and private services the citizen may use? Is…
I write for CNBC TV18 on Ayushman Bharat In the years since liberalisation, India has added over 500 million new citizens. the country itself has gone from being an economic basket case, to being the 6th largest economy in the world at…
I write for CNBC TV18 ‘ You see sir, I can talk English, I can walk English, I can laugh English, I can run English, because English is such a funny language’ said Arjun Singh, played by Amitabh Bachchan, in the Bollywood…