Harini Calamur's Writings
Post Balakot the Government messed up the communication to the nation at large. I write for CNBC-TV18 For a party that was so good at controlling the narrative in the pre-2014 scenario, the BJP has been floundering on the communication front. Be…
The Balakot Strikes : This appeared on CNBC-TV18 In the wee hours of the morning, on the 26th of February, a dozen Mirage fighters dropped guided surface to air missiles on a terrorist camp in Balakot, Pakistani. This was not just in…
I wrote on the Trolls of Trollistan for CNBC-TV 18 On Valentine’s day, a suicide bomber rammed his car into a bus ferrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawans and murdered 40 soldiers. The terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, Jaish-e-Mohammed, claimed responsibility….
I write about the face off between Twitter and the Indian Parliament for CNBC – TV18 At the core of the stand-off between the Indian Parliament’s standing committee on Information technology and Twitter is the perception by the Indian right wing that…
I wrote this on Digital Publishing for CNBC-TV18 About five years ago, if you had asked anyone in the media to look into the crystal ball and predict the future of news, the answer would have been simple. Digital media companies such…
This piece on Minimum Income Guarantee appeared in CNBC-TV18 here The conversation around an income guarantee for the poor is not new. In the Economic Survey of India 2016-17, the then chief economic advisor to the Government of India, Arvind Subramaniam had…
This first appeared in CNBC-TV18 on Priyanka Gandhi’s formal entry into politics. After spending the best part of the last decade helping the Indian National Congress in various election campaigns, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has finally taken the plunge into formal party and…
A few weeks ago, Mukesh Ambani, the richest Indian, and the Chairman of Reliance Industries, spoke about something that has been, hitherto, the province of academics, and the left. He called for an end to data colonisation by large foreign MNC’s who…
This appeared in CNBC TV 18 here If you look back at one theme that is recurrent across 2018 in India – it has been rights. Be it the Supreme Court striking down Section 377 that impinged on the rights of LGBTQ…
This article appeared first in CNBCTV18 here Fake news has been one of the most contentious topics surrounding news in the last 5 years. It is believed that fake news decided the fate of the Americans and led to the election of…