Harini Calamur's Writings
Before Monday, I like most of the human beings on the planet, had not heard of Mossack Fonseca, a law firm based out of Panama, that makes the Firm in John Grisham’s novel, seem like a cuddly toy. Mossack Fonseca was very discerning…
Whenever i feel slightly lost, and tossed about by the stormy winds of life, i listen to this. As much a song as a plea. get my boat back to safety … sort of. more on the Benaras boatman series here Somehow…
Yatra has fun with it’s new TVC Which also means, while they may gently mock him, Kanhaiya Kumar is now a celebrity, on whose celeb power ads are getting made. There is no such thing as bad publicity. My favorite quote on…
As i was reading this piece on Pachauri, i could feel the smoke coming out of my ears. What kind of an idiot commissions such a one sided piece, and shames the victim of sexual harassment ? Pachauri, who is accused of…
All in all, it wasn’t quite as bad as the critics made it out to be. Definitely worth a watch on the big screen. The film is set some 20 years after Batman first picks up his cape and cowl. Batman/Bruce…
Three very good reads at the cusp of content and technology. I quite enjoyed reading them. Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time – a beautifully insightful piece from HBR. it just cleared up a lot…
Answer : terribly so. Microsoft created an ‘intelligent’ bot, that was designed to have conversations with millennials, adapt and have more conversation. Called Tay, it had a persona that was young and bubbly, and Microsoft – like any proud parent – wanted to…
three very different stories The first, from the Times of India, is about a couple of cattle traders lynched by “suspected cattle-protection vigilantes“ The deceased, Muhammad Majloom, 35, and Azad Khan alias Ibrahim, 15, were cattle traders and related to each other. Their bodies…
Good read in today’s NYT: two stand out paragraphs, i felt myself nodding in agreement the omnipresence of social media has created a new sort of shame culture. The world of Facebook, Instagram and the rest is a world of constant display…
The Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, in written response to a question on Marital Rape, in Parliament last week, “It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various…