Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
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…
(image courtesy – Times of India) Any good boss, worth his/her salt will not expect you to spend too much time with them. Good bosses, empower their teams to make their decisions – allow them space to make errors, and allow them…
Most mass media practitioners will tell you that classical music is elitist. that it is mean to be enjoyed in rarified atmospheres, with others in their social class. There is a general perception that mass audiences will not enjoy classical music. And, that,…
On Akshaya Tritiya i am struck by how far we have moved away from traditions, because of the way religious events and packaged, marketed, and sold. I am possibly the last generation that grew up with an oral tradition. Our grandmothers, and…
The communication from banks, for just about generations, is save today ‘bete ki padai, beti ki shaadi’. I am not even getting into the implicit sexism of this, simply because stereotypes work in advertising, and this is how India (and much of…
(image source : here) Facebook tells me, it is Star Wars day. This is how mythology begins. Wait a thousand years, and see it being transformed into a religion, replete with a ‘God’, good and evil, heroes and villains, and most importantly,…
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…
Yatra has fun with it’s new TVC Which also means, while they may gently mock him, Kanhaiya Kumar is now a celebrity, on whose celeb power ads are getting made. There is no such thing as bad publicity. My favorite quote on…
Three very good reads at the cusp of content and technology. I quite enjoyed reading them. Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time – a beautifully insightful piece from HBR. it just cleared up a lot…
Answer : terribly so. Microsoft created an ‘intelligent’ bot, that was designed to have conversations with millennials, adapt and have more conversation. Called Tay, it had a persona that was young and bubbly, and Microsoft – like any proud parent – wanted to…