Harini Calamur's Writings
As i go through the judgement, just putting up various paras that catch my attention. it is fascinating reading. This is not just law, it is scholarship. The emphasis on the unique being of an individual is the salt ofhis/her life. Denial…
In our family tradition of Hinduism- we are on first name terms with our Gods. It is a relationship of deep love, and utmost familiarity. I would often listen to my grandmothers berating God (usually the child form of Rama or Krishna)…
As i took 3 weeks to finish watching Sacred Games on Netflix, i wasn’t quite sure if I was savouring it, or meandering through it. Sacred Games, based on Vikram Chandra’s book by the same name, is a story of two different…
Monsoon has arrived in Mumbai with full force and it has dissolved most of the arterial roads.A foot bridge that connects the densely populated halves of Andheri east and west collapsed off, an arterial flyover between the two parts of the suburb,…
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…