Harini Calamur's Writings
Gender Equality in India – After 71 years of being a Republic, do women really have the right to public spaces? This appeared in the FPJ on the 25th of January How many women would be comfortable drinking chai at a stall,…
When the watchdog becomes the lapdog, what happens to the public interest? I write about the continuing crisis in Indian News Media. This appeared in the FPJ on 18th January Last week, Mumbai Police filed a supplementary charge sheet in the case…
As COVID ravages through India in its second wave, the vaccination drive is also on overdrive, trying to make sure that as many gain protection from the worst effects of COVID. Across the world the vaccine drive is in full speed. The…
I never thought I would leave Mumbai. The city of my birth. The city that let me grow. The city that was so much part of me, that the very act of returning to it from my travels, would make me smile…
i write for the FPJ on the link between Big Tech and Extremism Last week, a mob of white extremists, egged on by a President who refused to accept the November election results, attempted to overturn the US elections, and overthrow the…
This piece on unpaid women’s wage – paying for women’s work – appeared in the FPJ on the 4th of January: The COVID pandemic has exposed how fragile the world’s move towards equality and equity is. Across the world, the most economically…
I write for the FPJ on the 28th of December, on the ways in which the economies of the world were changed forever. “On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia unknown etiology (unknown cause)…
Soul by Pixar is a great way to end your 2020, and start your 2021. Ask anyone, and they will tell you that 2020 was a strange sort of year. A year that called into question everything that we knew, and the…
An additional 88 million people will slip back into extreme poverty because of Covid-19 in the best case scenario, and about 115 million in the worst case scenario. This is the worst reversal in poverty alleviation in almost thirty years,
Chanakya talked about Gudayuddha, or the secret war – that used clandestine methods, including misinformation, to win wars. Disinformation is not a modern phenomenon. It has been used for centuries, if not aeons.