Harini Calamur's Writings
I write for CNBC TV18 on the Aadhaar Judgement Does the State have the right to know all information about its citizens, via a single large shared database that is linked to all government and private services the citizen may use? Is…
I write for CNBC TV18 on Ayushman Bharat In the years since liberalisation, India has added over 500 million new citizens. the country itself has gone from being an economic basket case, to being the 6th largest economy in the world at…
I write for CNBC TV18 ‘ You see sir, I can talk English, I can walk English, I can laugh English, I can run English, because English is such a funny language’ said Arjun Singh, played by Amitabh Bachchan, in the Bollywood…
I wrote for CNBC TV18 On January 22nd, earlier this year, President Donald Trump of the United States of America, fired the first salvo in the trade war by imposing massive duties on imported solar panels and washing machines, primarily to hurt…
As the Kerala Nun fights for justice, the Indian state has to stand firmly for the rights of the individual. I write for Firstpost The Oscar winning film Spotlight looked at the investigation into child sex abuse by priests of the Catholic…
I write for CNBC TV18, on why some floods are more important than other floods. It seems to be the season of floods. Last week the National Emergency Response Centre (NERC), released figures on the natural disasters in the monsoons so far. …
I wrote this on the media coverage of the Kerala Floods The recent Kerala floods showed two sides of the same media coin. The use of media and social media for good, and the use of them to spread fake news and…
I wrote this for CNBC TV18 Kerala has been facing the onslaught of monsoons since July. Last week, that turned into a veritable flood. If you look a the graph below, it shows the variance between normal monsoon rains, and what happened…
The Indian Education System has to get geared to produce people with future relevant skills. As India celebrates her 71st Independence Day, there is much joy and revelry. The last 71 years have seen a country been brutally partitioned, face the worse…
This is the second time I watched Sherlock, and I enjoyed the ‘watching at one go’ experience far more than watching it as separates. My at one go is not binge watching. I watched the 4 seasons and 12 episodes in about…