Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA Budget for women: They need real help not gender apartheid In the last budget before the next General Elections, the Finance Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram could not rock any boats. Nor could he undertake the kind of massive spending…
My column in today’s DNA In Mumbai, a few days ago, Mobin Barmare decided to save some time, by speeding on the wrong side of the road on a one way street. Two people died as a result of this. Chandrakant Tupe,…
My Column in today’s DNA 2012 was the year in which the discourse on violence against women stepped out, from the dingy nooks and crannies that it inhabited, the hushed whispers it was talked in . to into the public space with…
A few days ago, I didn’t know there was a rapper called Yo Yo Honey Singh (no, seriously) Hardly surprising given that the main form of music that i consume is Hindustani Classical Vocal. Yet, today i know more about him than…
And she died this morning. In a land far away. With her family near her. A girl whose only fault it was to think that she was safe in India. In the capital city of India, the superpower in making, a woman out…
My column in today’s DNA In the vast ocean that is the World Wide Web, is a site called Maps4aid.com. It is a crowdsourcing project that meticulously documents violence against women and children in India. Spending a fraction of an hour on…
My column in today’s DNA In the recent past, the issue of free speech and expression has come to the fore in India. Censorship has been creeping up slowly but surely. It seems that institutions and groups are ganging up to…
My column in today’s DNA The UK is in the throes of a major scandal involving a child sex abuse ring and the attempts of the establishment to cover it up for over four decades. At the centre of the ring is…
(image courtesy – youth ki awaaz) …of reasonable, peaceful protest. Irom Sharmilla. it is shameful that a government that talks to terrorists, naxals, anarchists, nations that sponsor terrorism – will not talk to a lone woman fasting peacefully for the right to equality –yes,…
My column in today’s DNA Trial by media: Kejriwal is simply on a witch-hunt Madame Defarge is one of the most terrifying characters in modern English fiction. She makes her appearance in A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’ novel on the…