Harini Calamur's Writings
Last week Charu had blogged about Neil French talking himself out of a job because he said “Women don’t make it to the top because they don’t deserve to. They’re crap.” and went on to further explain the reason – women are…
My blog is worth $49,679.52.How much is your blog worth? Mine is worth almost USD 50,000. Maybe it is time I sold out and moved to the hills 🙂 The valuation is based on Tristan Louis’s research that was triggered off by…
In the last couple of weeks there has been construction work happening outside our office. A sidewalk is being built. And there is a whole bunch of people working on it. This particular young man wheels in gravel. Adarsh Nagar, where the…
When 6 million Jewish people perish in concentration camps, it is called a Holocaust. When 20 million people died in Stalin’s Soviet Union it was called ruthless Communist murder. When PolPot murdered 1.8 million in Cambodia he was a madman. When a…
Currently re reading an old favourite. Tranlated by Sir Richard F Burton(the explorer not the actor), and with an introduction by A.S.Byatt Scheherazade’s attempt to save her life and the lives of all the eligible women in the kingdom by weaving a…
The last few weeks have been spent trying to cast kids for a show that we might be doing. The show is centred around 10 year olds – doing what ever 10 year olds are supposed to be doing. The entire process…
She strangled her first two babies to death because they were girls, terminated two other pregnancies because the foetuses were female and lost two baby boys to infections acquired in infancy. Married at 18, Ranu, from Rajasthan, is now fiercely protective of…
Society and Culture has always fascinated me. Why do certain people behave in a particular manner? Why do Tamilians do somethings and Punjabis do something else. And this is more from a macro sociological/anthropological/ethnographic perspective than a micro (psychological) viewpoint. I always…
… right up there with the other great mysteries that include why God(dess) decided to create the universe (she was having a bad day :); to what happens to the other sock (the one that never came back from the washing machine);…
.. just as another blogger Varna received a legal notice and a threat to be sued for 175 crores, in the ongoing saga of IIPM v/s freedom of speech, MSM seems to have woken up and printed its first story. But Varna’s…