Harini Calamur's Writings
The semi finals are over, and the results are out. The BJP has lost 3-0 in the Hindi heartland, defeated in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. And, where you have a loser, you have a winner. The grand old…
source : here I wrote this for CNBC TV18 – here On paper India is a democratic republic, based on the rule of law; where individual freedoms are guaranteed by the State. However, in practise, we are held hostage by disparate groups…
When Natasha Mehra , the main protagonist of Anand Sivakumaran’s debut novel Natasha Mehra must die, finds out that other women bearing her name are dying under mysterious circumstances, she beings to investigate. The result is a thriller that has you on…
Contrary to popular belief, the problem of domestic violence has not gone away. Nor is it restricted to the poor and poorly educated. It is rife in over a third of the households and seems to be Indian society’s best kept secrets….
I write for CNBC- TV18 Tis election season in India. With the General Elections due in May 2019, and a bunch of state elections on the anvil now, campaigning is in full swing. But what are the elections about? Going by the…
This week brought the news that Carnatic Classical vocalist, and Magsaysay award winner, TM Krishna’s concert was cancelled after a motivated campaign by a driven cabal of self-proclaimed defenders of Indian tradition. They accused him of being anti national, anti-Hindu, and an…
Late last year an anonymous reddit user, @deepfakes, did something that got him banned from the platform that prides itself on free speech. He (or she) released a set of porn videos with the faces of celebrities superimposed on the face of…
The Air Quality Index (AQI) is a measure of the purity of air, the lower the level of AQI, the better the quality of air, and as it increases, it becomes more and more dangerous for consumption by most forms of life….
The Internet Trap – How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy is a deep dive in to the digital universe, and looks at the power exerted by trans national monopolies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google, in developing large pools…
This appeared on the CNBC Tv18 website One of the more familiar tropes in Hollywood is that of the intelligent machine, that sees human kind as a threat to its survival and annihilates people. In the film 2001 Space Odyssey, the AI…