Harini Calamur's Writings
This column on the Apathy of the Indian Middle Class appeared on the 14th of June 2021 For the growing Indian upper Middle Class, the second wave of COVID has been a revelation. For the first time in 30+ years we have…
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…
this appeared in the FPJ on 31st May 2021 The verdict in the Tarun Tejpal case that let him walk free, despite an apology on paper where he admits he violated the woman’s consent, is astounding. Judge Kshama Joshi observed that the…
This appeared in FPJ on the 24th of May After a year of COVID, there seemed to be the first glimmer of hope around February- March this year. things seemed to be looking up. We were reading about cases dropping, people recovering….
This appeared in FPJ on the 17th of May How many Indians have died due to this wave of COVID? The answer is no one knows. Government data does not reconcile with what we know when we look around us; there is…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 10th of May TS Elliot wrote about April being the cruellest month. For many Indians, this has come true, as predictions of having defeated COVID-19 unravelled. We have reeled under the onslaught of a COVID…
This appeared in the FPJ, on the 3rd of May Since the middle of April, India has been in the grip of the second wave of the Corona Virus. A variant that is more virulent, more infectious, and that is overwhelming the…
This appeared on the 26th of April, 2021 In the last 5 days I have offered more condolences to people, than I have done in my entire life. There is no family that I know, that is not impacted. A friend wrote…
This appeared in the FPJ on April 19th 2001 A scan of the news channels, a glance at an Indian timeline on Twitter, a glimpse at the newspaper, will confirm just one thing. COVID is back, and this time it is worse…
This appeared in the FPJ on the 12th of April A 100 million vaccinations done. Over a ten million of these were the second vaccination. India’s doctors, nurses, public health administrators and others have done a stellar job in kickstarting the vaccination…