Harini Calamur's Writings
This Morning, the Supreme Court ruled that Privacy is a Fundamental Right, gently correcting the Government that argued it was not. (source : Times of India, May 3rd 2017) The thought of the top most Legal Officer of the Government of India…
i write for the @dna on this landmark judgement, and the way ahead source : here This Morning’s much anticipated news was the Supreme Court ruling on Instant Triple Talaq, and hopes that the esteemed bench would uphold the rights of…
The results of the UP state elections are finally out – and verdict is Adityanath, the 5 time member of parliament, is the chief minister. The BJP choose the most person it considers most appropriate, and most in line with it’s vision, to run…
It is election season, as it usually is the case in India. Which means, we the people, are subject to full on rhetoric, revisionism, silliness, and of course, empty promises. And, this isn’t one party or the other. It is the whole…
Three months after the Pathankot terror attack forced postponement of Foreign Secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan, Islamabad’s envoy Abdul Basit Thursday said the comprehensive bilateral dialogue process has been “suspended”. He also said “cooperation” is key to the investigation, and not…
three very different stories The first, from the Times of India, is about a couple of cattle traders lynched by “suspected cattle-protection vigilantes“ The deceased, Muhammad Majloom, 35, and Azad Khan alias Ibrahim, 15, were cattle traders and related to each other. Their bodies…
Some basic maths. most Indians finish their 10th at the age of 16-17 ; their 12th at 18/19 (depending on which part of the year they were born) They finish graduation at 21/22. they finish their masters at 23/24 If they then…
After a long time, i wrote an opinion piece for the DNA. And, it essentially was on why India was not being ruled by the Hindu Taliban. The Indian electorate makes informed and wise decisions – it may not be as literate…
I write for the @Dna on the 14th of January I am not Perumal Murugan, but I very well could be. So could you or anyone else, who run afoul of a tiny, vocal, rabid fringe that thinks nothing about hounding people…
I write for the DNA, 13th of January Amidst all the international attention on the Paris shootings, and Charlie Hebdo – much of the world missed out the increasingly violent conflict between Boko Haram, the Nigerian extreme Islamist group, and the Nigerian…