Harini Calamur's Writings
All things Digital
I wrote this on Digital Publishing for CNBC-TV18 About five years ago, if you had asked anyone in the media to look into the crystal ball and predict the future of news, the answer would have been simple. Digital media companies such…
A few weeks ago, Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian, and the Chairman of Reliance Industries, spoke about something that has been, hitherto, the province of academics, and the left. He called for an end to data colonisation by large foreign MNC’s who…
Late last year an anonymous reddit user, @deepfakes, did something that got him banned from the platform that prides itself on free speech. He (or she) released a set of porn videos with the faces of celebrities superimposed on the face of…
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…
Data Protection has been in the news ever since the dawn of the digital era. But, in the last few years the clamour for stronger data protections laws have become louder. Europe has taken the first step to limit the power that…
Net Neutrality, Dating, Indian GDP, Reptiles that Fly – today’s recommended reads. Net Neutrality is on the agenda today. The BBC has a detailed report on how, if it is accepted by the Government, India’s net neutrality rules will be the…
In the aftermath of the Elphinstone Bridge stampede, and deaths, it is good to examine the relationship between Social Media, Main Stream Media, and Politicians Twitter, more than any other social networking platform, has changed the way Government interact and politicians interact…
Actually, the rate at which Artificial Intelligence is developing, not very long. Can we do other things, yes … but there has to be very clear cut policy initiatives to create those jobs, and skill for them. My piece for the DNA,…
I wrote on Internet Trolls, Troll Hunting and Censorship, for the ABP Sometime last year, the Pew Research centre, conducted an extensive research on the nature of the internet, and asked “In the next decade, will public discourse online become more or less…
The World Press Freedom Index is out, and it shows that India has fallen from 133 last year to 136 this year. Which means, that according to the report, press freedom has gotten worse. The reasons : With Hindu nationalists trying to purge…