Harini Calamur's Writings
If a boat capsizes in the North East (Assam to be precise) and no one hears of it, are there still casualties ? Hopes dimmed on Tuesday of finding more survivors after an overcrowded ferry split in two and sank in northeast…
Brokering News Brokering News is a documentary on the Paid News in India. The phenomenon has spread far and wide and permeates every aspect of news in India. For most of us working in the media, the story of paid news is…
Someone has either a fantastic sense of humour or oversight 😀 am so glad that i have given up watching news TV – what verbal diarrhoea, what speculation, and what fiction… and, this isn’t an anti -NDTV rant. in fact it was…
My column in Today’s DNA Odisha. Sikkim. Andhra Pradesh. Manipur. Natural disasters struck the first two states. Floods in Odisha impacted 2.2 million Indian citizens. People lost lives. Property was destroyed. Development washed away. Sikkim suffered an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the…
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…
Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
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…
Like many others – i read and then heard the recordings, allegedly, between a leading power broker and a leading journalist, with horror… What caused the horror : a) it seems that power brokers are using journalists to fix the composition of…
How many people in India have the ability to bring people from various parts of the political spectrum together ? One and only one, Arundathi Roy. After putting me off the Narmada Bachao Andolan, feeling sorry for tribal development or lack of…