Harini Calamur's Writings
I write on what next for #Metoo – for CNBC-TV18 It has been almost 3 weeks since the #MeToo uprising took off in India. And, the impact has been staggering. A minister in the Union cabinet has resigned. Production houses have lost…
Ravi Aggarwal’s book, India connected is a breezy walk down the street of rapid smartphone penetration in India, and a look at it’s impact on social progress, economic development, individual habits, and government. There approximately 330 million smartphones in India, it is…
Chris Paine’s documentary film “Do you Trust this Computer” is a look in to the world of unregulated cross border digital giants, the quest for Artificial Intelligence, and what could happen if Artificial Intelligence decides that humanity is going to stand in…
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with a report that looked at the implications of a 1.5 degrees Celcius rise in average temperature across the world. The prognosis is dire. The findings say that unless the…
#meToo – A shorter version of this appeared in CNBC TV18, this week Two Thousand years ago, there was a story of a woman’s anger that burnt down a city. The famous Tamil epic Silapadhikaram narrates the story of Kannagi and her…
I write for She the People on what next for #MeToo The #MeToo movement in India has erupted. It began as a trickle with Tanushree Dutta, and now it is a roar of stories that form part of the experiences women faced…
I write for CNBC TV18 on #MeToo It has been a year since the #MeToo campaign that triggered a mass outpouring of stories of sexual harassment, and managed to kneecap a number of sexual predators across geographies. The ripples of #metoo are…
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…