Harini Calamur's Writings
i wrote this for CNBC-TV18 The world population clock at the time of writing this column was 7,635,090,661 people. The counter moves at almost 3 people added to the total, every second. This year 74 million births, and a shade over 30…
Between a terrible outlook on trade in the future, and the replacement of workers by robots domestically – there is going to be a massive shrinking of the workforce.A number of assembly lines, across industries, are completely operated by robots. Since the…
This appeared in CNBC TV 18 This week’s outrage meter was activated by the report on the World’s Most Dangerous Countries for women, published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation. In a world dominated by the Syrian conflict, ISIS terror, the troubles in Afghanistan,…
This appeared a few weeks ago, and looked at the externalities of Development It was a bit like Chipko movement in Delhi earlier this week. Hundreds of citizens turned up to hug trees and protest the felling of almost 17,000 to create homes for…
Trade Wars Begin – A version of this appeared on CNBC TV18 There is a problem in the world trading ecosystem. A very big problem. A problem so massive that it has seen the first few shots, of a full-fledged trade war,…
writer and film maker, Anand Sivakumaran offers us a serialised podcast – Chance pe Dance. This is story telling at it’s most ancient form, by a storyteller. Chance pe Dance, is the breezy thriller about Varun, a young gambler, who gets tomorrows…
I write for CNBC TV 18 on the gates of Protectionism that seem to be shutting on world trade The instinct towards protectionism is not new. It has been a part of economic history since the beginning of trade. In 75 CE,…
I write for CNBC TV18 about the need to look at subscriptions and why we need to look at paying for news to beat fake news. There is a story about the early days of news broadcasting on BBC radio. It was…
I wrote this for CNBC TV 18, a few weeks ago on Public Safety and India. An edited version of this piece, appeared on the site Last week, a three-storey building collapsed in Jodhpur. There were many injuries. I couldn’t ascertain whether…
Data Protection has been in the news ever since the dawn of the digital era. But, in the last few years the clamour for stronger data protections laws have become louder. Europe has taken the first step to limit the power that…