Harini Calamur's Writings
I write for CNBC TV18 ‘ You see sir, I can talk English, I can walk English, I can laugh English, I can run English, because English is such a funny language’ said Arjun Singh, played by Amitabh Bachchan, in the Bollywood…
An edited version of this appeared in the DNA last week What differentiates our species from the rest of the animal kingdom is, not just the use of words, sentences, grammar and syntax for communication, but also the way these…
This column appeared in the DNA on the 14th of November If Campa Cola had created so much buzz when it was a soft drink manufacturer, it would probably still be in business, selling aerated water to the consumer market. Alas, that…
My Column in the DNA, on the 17th of October A few years ago I was on the interview panel of a leading Indian University that had just launched an honours degree programme in Economics. We, me and another professor, were…
My blog for Tehelka on English There was a time when very little English was used by Bollywood. What little was in the form of expletives – Dharemendra flaring his nostrils and casting blazing looks at the bad guys as he rasped…
“Hi, would you like to come and see our flick” An innocuous line, you would think, but one which got K fuming I could see the fumes coming out of her ear. “That stupid child doesn’t know how to handle the client.”…