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    Column: Legalised Lawlessness and the British Empire

    October 29, 2022 by calamur
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    Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell, narrated by Stephen Fry

    January 8, 2022 by calamur
  • Soul by Pixar
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    Film Review: Soul by Pixar – a balm for weary souls

    January 2, 2021 by calamur
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    Book Review: Bhima the Lone Warrior

    April 18, 2020 by calamur
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    Review: Star Trek Picard

    April 13, 2020 by calamur
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    Book Review : Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal

    January 25, 2020 by calamur
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    On Reading – From being a Lapsed reader to Starting to Read Regularly Again

    January 12, 2020 by calamur
  • Natasha Mehra Must Die
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    Book Review : Natasha Mehra Must Die by Anand Sivakumaran

    January 3, 2019 by calamur
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    Book Review : The Internet Trap – How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

    November 22, 2018 by calamur
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    Book Review : India Connected

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Category: Propaganda

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Battling Fake News & AI In the Digital Era
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Israel-Hamas Conflict: Battling Fake News & AI In the Digital Era

January 7, 2024 by calamur

This appeared in FPJ in early December On October 11th, CNN journalist Sara Sidner sent waves of horror and shock across the world, when she reported that 40 Israeli babies were beheaded by Hamas. A few days earlier, on October 7th Hamas…

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Column: Broken News, Broken Business Models
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Column: Broken News, Broken Business Models

October 29, 2022 by calamur

The news business models are broken. What remains are platforms that are trying to create strife to keep people watching. I write in the FPJ on this phenomenon Towards the end of May, on a televised live debate on a leading news…

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Column: Polarisation and the Indian Media – Why trust is at an all-time low
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Column: Polarisation and the Indian Media – Why trust is at an all-time low

June 20, 2022 by calamur

I wrote this piece on media polarisation and the role that anchors play, and why trust in the media is at an all time low, for the FPJ In the last two years, since the lockdown began, most of us have become…

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Column: Big Tech Censorship – Who Watches the Watchmen?
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Column: Big Tech Censorship – Who Watches the Watchmen?

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This piece on Big Tech and censorship appeared in the FPJ on the 7th of June 2021 On the 1st of June this year, Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari made his government’s equivalent of “goli maaro saalon ko” tweet. Sending out a stern…

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Column: Shrinking Democracy – The Weaponizing of Rights,  and Reduction of Freedoms
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Column: Shrinking Democracy – The Weaponizing of Rights, and Reduction of Freedoms

December 31, 2021 by calamur

This appeared in the FPJ on the 15th of March, 2021 Last Fortnight, the Freedom Report, by the US think tank Freedom House, downgraded India’s rankings to “Partly Free”. The  Swedish V-Dem Institute, released its report a week later and downgraded India…

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Column: Extremism and Big Tech – a relationship that threatens the world
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Column: Extremism and Big Tech – a relationship that threatens the world

January 17, 2021 by calamur

i write for the FPJ on the link between Big Tech and Extremism Last week, a mob of white extremists, egged on by a President who refused to accept the November election results, attempted to overturn the US elections, and overthrow the…

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Column: How to win a battle: Disinformation offers a strategic advantage over foes
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Column: How to win a battle: Disinformation offers a strategic advantage over foes

December 27, 2020 by calamur

Chanakya talked about Gudayuddha, or the secret war – that used clandestine methods, including misinformation, to win wars. Disinformation is not a modern phenomenon. It has been used for centuries, if not aeons.

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Facebook & Twitter –  two interpretations of Freedom
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Facebook & Twitter – two interpretations of Freedom

June 6, 2020 by calamur

A few days ago Donald Trump, the President of the United States tweeted, as he usually does But, what was unusual was that twitter slapped a fact check label on this, that derailed the not very stable President of the US. He…

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CNBC TV18 Column : Twitter Banning Political Ads is not the answer to Fakes
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CNBC TV18 Column : Twitter Banning Political Ads is not the answer to Fakes

January 5, 2020 by calamur

This piece on Twitter banning Political Ads appeared on the 7th of November Last week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the platform will not carry any paid political ads. He tweeted “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on…

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Data Colonisation, Data Monopolies, and what can be done.
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Data Colonisation, Data Monopolies, and what can be done.

February 3, 2019 by calamur

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…

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Harini Calamur –  works at the intersection of digital content, technology, and audiences. I write mainly on Economics, Development, Politics, Media bias, Science Communication, and review the content that I consume

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