Harini Calamur's Writings
The World of News
Main Stream Media, has to carry a lot of the responsibility for Fake News. As the media cries wolf, more often than not, it needs to revisit the fable to know what happened in the end. I write for ABP Once upon…
I write for the ABP on fake news Right now, if you were a political news junkie, you would be right in believing that there are only two people in the world who are the lightning rod for either all things dreadful,…
The nature of truth has changed. From an era, where one looked at proof and evidence to discuss what was right and wrong, it moved almost seamlessly to one, where we look for news content that confirms our biases. From a world…
Image from here. The New York Times today released the report of it’s 2020 group that studied how the organisation needs to move forward in a turbulent digital era. As the previous reports from the NYT, this too was very illuminating (especially…
This is the front page of the Mumbai Mirror. What Lakshmi, who represented india in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, actually said “Sindhu has what i didn’t have back then – my husband as a coach” I know readership is an issue. I know clicks…
Before Monday, I like most of the human beings on the planet, had not heard of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based out of Panama, that makes the Firm in John Grisham’s novel, seem like a cuddly toy. Mossack Fonseca was very discerning…
This morning’s amusement was Amol Rajan, editor of the British Paper, Independent, stating that his paper was going to refer to Mumbai as Bombay, to prevent “Hindu Nationalists” from getting their way “The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan…
I write for the DNA, 13th of January Amidst all the international attention on the Paris shootings, and Charlie Hebdo – much of the world missed out the increasingly violent conflict between Boko Haram, the Nigerian extreme Islamist group, and the Nigerian…
My blog on Charlie Hebdo shootings, in DNA on 8th January 2015 Is the price of offending nutcases, death? How far do you hold your silence? Who all are you supposed to be scared of? Can you really blaspheme against a religion you…
My column in the DNA on the 29th of December, It is that time of the year when publicity hungry groups go chasing movies they want to ban. Two years ago, it was those who wanted Vishwaroopam to be bannedbecause it affected their sensibility…