Harini Calamur's Writings
As a media professional and a media watcher – i can’t help but be deeply disappointed & disillusioned by the conduct of the media over the last 5+ years. It is almost as though they have collectively sold out. that disillusionment became anger with…
It seems to be open season on formulating legislation… Everyone and his idiot cousin has gotten onto the bandwagon. And, underlying this desire to legislate to solve India’s problems lies a deeply fascist thought -” I know better than you. I care…
My column in today’s DNA Pakistan fighting terror was a bit like a bunch of ladies of tradable virtue endorsing the need for chastity. It has been a fortnight since a team of American Navy SEALS landed in Abbottabad, smashed into the…
This appeared in the April edition of Pragati. If there is any country in the world that is a poster child for dictatorship, it is Pakistan. Over the last two and half decades at least, Pakistan seems to have been more stable…
From my column in today’s DNA – “ “Read WikiLeaks, smirk and move on” Tortuous Convolvulus is one of the most fascinating comic book characters. He appears in Asterix and the Roman Agent. Tortuous Convolvulus is a troublemaker par excellence — he…
Over 10 days after the story broke in the Open Magazine & Outlook, the rest of the media seems to have gotten into the act of covering the #Radiatapes – especially the ethics of journalists on the tapes. NDTV went first yesterday…
A week has gone by, but MSM is yet to cover the story in a major concerted manner, though opinion pieces have begun emerging both in India and outside. I have begun compiling a list of all pieces in the MSM, here….
… … the media silence on the Radia Tapes is deafening … For those of you watching and reading the Main Stream Media this week, life would be pretty much the same. 2 G scam, Karnataka, Some Asian Games Medals, some vague…
A long time ago, in a life time far away, i read Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Tipping Point” and remember being impressed with the insight on what causes mass behavioral change. I was so impressed that when Blink came out i bought a…
HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB. And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use…