Harini Calamur's Writings
Media, Media Bias, Propaganda, Media Studies, Media Ownership
Peta has decided to run a campaign that likens non-vegetarians to Nazi’s, and animals led to slaughter, to Jewish people. gross. and vile. I am almost tempted to take up eating meat to counter this kind of shock advertising. and i am…
I have just completed a report for a client on the state of commercial television broadcasting and the possible way ahead. The last 10 days have been spent revisiting territory that i haven’t seen in a long time. I think that the…
Every so often, I come across a piece of moral posturing that makes me sit down, hold my ribs and have a hearty laugh. The latest one in a long line of hypocritical musings is from the advertising fraternity. A joint study…
One of the questions that we – as media professionals – ask each other is where are the writers? Where are the writers who penned amazing narratives. that made for such compelling viewing. Where are the men and women who could write…
Once upon a time there was a great free e-mail service called Hotmail. Hotmail was probably the most popular e-mail service (about 7 years ago). Everyone i know, including me, had a hotmail account. And then Microsoft bought out Hotmail. First came…
A cultural hell is a place that has been designed by “creative” people for other “creative” people. where we will hear whiffs of “post modern” and “neo freudian” and “hegelian dialectic” and the adamsian paradox – but not much else. yesterday i…
what ever will be will be. the answer’s not ours to see cas sera sera The great indian compromise. once again. no loss of face on any side (or equal loss of face on all sides) – no change in the status…