Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in the FPJ in April 2023 The COVID impact on women’s employment Almost 3 years ago, most of the world shut down to protect itself from the impact of COVID. On the face of it, it was to save lives….
This appeared in the FPJ in March 2023 Creative Fakes Last week the world smiled affectionately at pictures of two former heads of states meeting for a stroll at the beach, and having a relaxed day out. Pictures of President Barack Obama,…
this piece appeared in the FPJ on 24th Feb, 2023 ChatGPT has been in the news for the last few months. It is impossible to go on to career sites, without seeing a certain kind of panic around the jobs that will…
After a long time i am writing about music again. Classical Music. And, i am loving it. This is a series for ‘Splainer – a platform i quite enjoy reading. The idea was to create a series that will get people into…
This appeared in the FPJ, and was my year end piece. As a school student, one of the most inspirational scenes in cinema, for me, was from the movie Gandhi. It centered around unarmed satyagrahis facing batons and bullets, with calmness, as…
Elon Musk bought Twitter a month ago, and ever since that incident, it seems like a free for all slugfest. Musk conducted public polls to restore the accounts of many, including former US President Donald Trump, American Rapper Kayne West, Canadian Psychologist…
Despite the best attempts of Government, legislature, judiciary, and some parts of the citizenry, in many cases the sheer ugliness of patriarchy rears its head and puts paid to all that has been achieved. I write for FPJ This week, a young…
I did a short piece for Founding Fuel on this The first thing that will strike you about Mastodon is how extraordinarily polite it is. Most of these people who are so incredibly nice and helpful, are also there on the ‘hellsite’….
Mastodon, and sites like that, are part of the federated universe, what the original internet was supposed to be – a bunch of servers, interlinked and interoperable – that cater to different interests and needs. My column for the FPJ, Named after…
The Shraddha Murder case, is amongst the saddest stories that one can read. A young woman full of life was murdered by her violent partner – Aftab Poonawalla. After killing her he chopped her body up into 36 pieces, bought a large…