Harini Calamur's Writings
This appeared in CNBC-TV18 on the 27th of February The plumes of black smoke that you see on your timeline, or on WhatsApp forwards, or on news channels is not from some remote part of the country or the world. It is…
My column in @DNA last week My earliest memories are of growing up in Delhi, and going to school there. Amongst those memories was a line that a six-year-old had seared into her subconscious — tu kaali hai (you are dark). It…
My column in the DNA on the 3rd of October The biggest show on Earth replete with drama, emotion, backstabbing, direct attacks, strong personalities, devoted squealing fans hits the road. Elections 2014 is just around the corner, and it is impossible to…
My comment piece in the DNA on the 11th of September In Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, two young men knifed another man who was stalking a woman. The stalker’s family lynched the two. And before you could say “what happened” there was a…
My Column in Today’s DNA Chaos theory is that branch of mathematics that looks at how random results arise from supposedly ‘normal’ events. The most popular representation of this is the Butterfly effect. The basic premise is “a butterfly flaps its wings…
It is not just [tag]Narendra Modi[/tag] who stands in the dock. The [tag]Communist Party of India[/tag] (Marxist) has just joined the ranks of those who use terror to subjugate their own people. The Chief Minister, [tag]Buddhadeb Bhattacharya[/tag] has been as callous as…