Harini Calamur's Writings
The last week has seen the relative calm that the world saw after 9-11 get shattered. Terrorism has reared its ugly head bringing death and destruction to innocents. So long as the terrorism is in far away Kashmir or the North East…
A story whose black humour shocks you. And it is true. A bunch of women laughing in Niger about one woman’s dream of eating meat. It’s hard enough for us to find millet,” said Habiba Abdulsalam, 30, waiting like the other women…
Last week i had posted my reaction at Dick Cheney being offended by the use of the word Gulag. I observed that it would have been so much more humane if he had been offended by torture perse. Bernardo, Yazad and I…
Dick Cheney is offendend by Amnesty’s description of Guantanamo Bay as the “American Gulag”. It would have been so much more humane to have been offended by the torture. Stuffing his foot further down his mouth he said: “I think the fact…
Last week poor Newsweek got jhapoed by the Pentagon for publishing a report on the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo Bay . The Pentagon put on its most angelic face and swore that nothing of that sort had happened. Newsweek was…
The Pentagon has reached a new low. It has accused Newsweek of being “irresponsible” for suggesting that interrogators desecrated the Holy Koran. The Guardian reports a spokesman for the Pentagon saying: ” ….our reaction is that Newsweek reported something that was factually…
Todays’ scanning through news on the web brings the news that US attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzles condems torture tactics condems torture tactics. would have been so much more civilized if he had condemed torture outright!
A couple of weeks ago I read an article, think that it was by Swaminathan Anklasaria Aiyer, called Kush and Berry, and looked at what little difference there was between the two. Today, while reading the Guardian online, the headline “Kush and…
Saudi Arabia is finally having municipal level elections early next year, ushering in the first whiff of Democracy. In this too there is a caveat. Women cannot vote. The excuses offered are ridiculous. Lack of female staff and photo identity can both…
…. the answers my friend is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind sang, Joan Baez – , sometime last century. About another war based on another lie. Another people who were decimated at the altar of Democracy….