Harini Calamur's Writings
This column appeared in the FPJ “Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” said the economist Milton Friedman. Right now, the…
This appeared in the FPJ Earlier this week, leading advertisers in the United States of America, did the unthinkable. In the face of mounting criticism about the role of social media, in general, and Facebook in particular, in spreading fake news and…
This appeared in the FPJ In the book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Chris Hedges talks about the United States, but he might have as well been writing about India, the media, and the complex…
It feels strange to give financial advice, considering that for a large part for my early and mid-career life, I spent money like it was going out of fashion. I invested in the usual LICs and PPFs because I had to, but I don’t think I had a single…
This morning HBR retracted a story on why women in China don’t rise up to the CXO level. In consultation with the author, we have decided to remove the text of this article from HBR.org. We did not properly convey the cultural…
My earliest memories of TV ads was this girl, whose skin tone resembled mine, looking upset. She had been rejected by a man who had come to ‘see her’ with his family – to select her as his bride. She failed the…
… i just saw this ad on twitter And, a number of things struck me. The producer in me wondered about the production logistics of shooting this. It must have been a task. Just the thought of socially distancing a crew makes…
.. can be devestating. There is a bloodbath in the post-COVID job market, and it is sparing no one. Senior management, middle management, fresh recruits, support staff, housekeeping, all are impacted – and there is no hope in sight. A few days…
As India eases the COVID lockdown, this is what is terrifying. The only curve that has flattened seems to be that of the economy. The cases of infection are rising. And, then you see a tweet like this from a CM of…
A few days ago Donald Trump, the President of the United States tweeted, as he usually does But, what was unusual was that twitter slapped a fact check label on this, that derailed the not very stable President of the US. He…