Harini Calamur's Writings
I wrote this after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, for the FPJ, on 30th August 2021 On the 15th of August 2021, as India marked its 74th Independence Day, Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. Like the British Empire almost 75 years ago,…
I wrote this after Kabul fell to the Taliban, for the FPJ on 23rd of August 2021 The Taliban is back in Afghanistan. With their signature brutality, sadism, and hate for all others not like them. Twenty years ago, the American state…
I write on the Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, for the FPJ, on the 16th of August 2021 “At the stroke of midnight, as the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom” …every child of a certain generation was brought up…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 9th of August 2021 The role of social media in spreading vaccine hesitancy cannot be understated. Scholars and experts blame social platforms for increasing anxiety, sleep disorders, and vaccine hesitancy. And, despite multiple outbreaks, these…
I wrote about the Indian Economy’s midlife crisis, in the FPJ on the 26th of July 2021 On July 24th, 1991, Dr Manmohan Singh presented the Union Government’s budget to parliament. India was at a political and economic crossroads. In the months…
This piece appeared after the murder of journalist Danish Siddiqui, by the Taliban. FPJ 19th July 2021 Last week, Indian journalism lost one its most honest practitioners. Danish Siddiqui’s whose photographs captured the extent of trauma caused by the second wave of…
I wrote about Global Warming and Factory Farming, and the problems of sustaining the demand for meat, for the FPJ on the 12th of July 2021 Last month temperatures across the world spiked. “Heat wave” screamed the headlines. In parts of Northern…
Violent Vegetarianism should be an oxymoron, but it isn’t. I write on the politics of vegetarianism for the FPJ, July 5th 2021 Human Beings are mostly meat eaters. This is the way we evolved, and this is the way we have stayed….
This piece on Remote Working and Small Town India appeared in the FPJ, on the 28th of June My attachment to my city of birth, Mumbai, is huge. I love the city. But, last year, In the midst of the first COVID…
This piece on the Era of Stupid, and how mass media and social media encourage stupidity in the name of political correctness, appeared in the FPJ on the 21st of June 2021 The Darwin Awards are given out every year to “commemorate…