Harini Calamur's Writings
In the aftermath of the Elphinstone Bridge stampede, and deaths, it is good to examine the relationship between Social Media, Main Stream Media, and Politicians Twitter, more than any other social networking platform, has changed the way Government interact and politicians interact…
Mumbai. My city. There is no where else in the world, that i feel so connected – and i have lived in other places. I can watch the city go by, for hours at a go. feeling every pulse of it. Alive,…
Sometime last year, I figured one thing about my life. That my brain was going to rust, metaphorically speaking, if I didn’t do things apart from work. A news role, placed serious dampeners on my meeting interesting people, and doing interesting things…
Sometimes, in the middle of the hustle and bustle of a city like Mumbai, you come across a scene like this. It makes you stop and pause. Shot on a one plus one. It just was a golden hue, at sunrise ……
This morning’s amusement was Amol Rajan, editor of the British Paper, Independent, stating that his paper was going to refer to Mumbai as Bombay, to prevent “Hindu Nationalists” from getting their way “The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan…
i went to Damu Nagar yesterday. One of my team mates wanted me to document this. I haven’t done this (documentation) since i took on my corporate role, and at a very basic level, i needed that reality check of being back…
Mumbai is not, what you might call, a beautiful city. It has none of the splendour of a Delhi, or the old world charm of a Kolkata or Chennai, it probably is not as hep as parts of Bangalore and Pune. But,…
And, there are some more shots. I have been practising night shooting. It is fun, especially trying to capture varying degrees of brightness at different points of the skyline. A lot of photography is framing. It is the same premise as when…
I have been taking my camera into work. I spend so much time there, it is easier to sneak in a 10 minute window to practise than planning a photowalk or other such activities – that are usually swamped by work expanding…
Mumbai’s changing landscape – On July 12th this year, i moved my family from the wadala place we were renting, to Kherwadi in Bandra East – just off the highway. The rent is steeper than Wadala (but not by much) – but…