Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
I wrote this on the media coverage of the Kerala Floods The recent Kerala floods showed two sides of the same media coin. The use of media and social media for good, and the use of them to spread fake news and…
I wrote this for CNBC TV18 Kerala has been facing the onslaught of monsoons since July. Last week, that turned into a veritable flood. If you look a the graph below, it shows the variance between normal monsoon rains, and what happened…
The Indian Education System has to get geared to produce people with future relevant skills. As India celebrates her 71st Independence Day, there is much joy and revelry. The last 71 years have seen a country been brutally partitioned, face the worse…
This appeared in CNBCTV18 a few weeks ago. Iran and the United States of America have had a rather tumultuous relationship for the best part of seven decades. In the 1950’s there were two major upheavals. The first was the nationalisation of…
As i go through the judgement, just putting up various paras that catch my attention. it is fascinating reading. This is not just law, it is scholarship. The emphasis on the unique being of an individual is the salt ofhis/her life. Denial…
In our family tradition of Hinduism- we are on first name terms with our Gods. It is a relationship of deep love, and utmost familiarity. I would often listen to my grandmothers berating God (usually the child form of Rama or Krishna)…
As i took 3 weeks to finish watching Sacred Games on Netflix, i wasn’t quite sure if I was savouring it, or meandering through it. Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s book by the same name, is a story of two different…
Monsoon has arrived in Mumbai with full force and it has dissolved most of the arterial roads.A foot bridge that connects the densely populated halves of Andheri east and west collapsed off, an arterial flyover between the two parts of the suburb,…
i wrote this for CNBC-TV18 The world population clock at the time of writing this column was 7,635,090,661 people. The counter moves at almost 3 people added to the total, every second. This year 74 million births, and a shade over 30…