8 Feb 2022
Harini Calamur
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A few days after Republic Day, where we celebrated our rights, we are seeing the sight of young Muslim women who are seeking a college education being turned away from institutions of learning – for the crime of wearing a hijab/burqa. In a blatantly discriminatory move, some colleges across coastal Karnataka are preventing their female…
2 Feb 2022
Harini Calamur
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Last week, there were three days of public violence in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. At stake were not religion or religious differences. Nor was it offence to religion. What took place was an outpouring of simmering anger and resentment that does not bode well for the state or the nation. Angry young aspirants for a…
16 Dec 2021
Harini Calamur
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Last week, Maria Ressa from the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov from Russia, accepted the Nobel Prize for Peace. The Nobel committee said “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace. …they are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in…
15 Nov 2021
Harini Calamur
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What would you call a person who suggests raping an infant, because her father stood up for a teammate facing communal abuse? It is difficult for us to even describe a person like this. After all, what kind of person threatens a child? And yet people like this exist. They exist in communities like ours,…
22 Sep 2021
Harini Calamur
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The Indian states, worried as they are about COVID-19 and the fatalities, need to take a calculated risk to reopen schools. While the risk to some students of contacting COVID-19 is high, the risk to the future of all students is even higher As the world locked down last year in the face of the…
10 Sep 2021
Harini Calamur
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Now, with the Taliban back in at the helm in Afghanistan and Pakistan as the chief influencer and with the ISIS and Al Qaeda back in play – India is in the crosshairs of some of the worst terror organisations in the world. With more powers and groupings indicating that they will negotiate with the…