Harini Calamur's Writings
I wrote this for the @dna on the 8th of December : Radio cab services allow you to believe that you are safe. Last Saturday, I was out with friends, and I booked a radio cab service to take me home. As…
My column in the dna, last week There are milestones and there are millstones. The former help you in terms of direction, the latter become a weight around your neck dragging you down. Often, the same event is both. And, a…
My column in the DNA on 9th January 2014 I joined the media in the mid-Nineties. The television industry was new, budgets were low and we all did everything — we wrote, directed, edited, ran about to find costumes, painted sets on…
My column in the DNA on 26th December 2013 And one more year comes to a close. As the years pass, it seems like each year is ending more rapidly than the previous one, jam-packed with events that come like a barrage…
My Column in today’s DNA 2012 was the year in which the discourse on violence against women stepped out, from the dingy nooks and crannies that it inhabited, the hushed whispers it was talked in . to into the public space with…
I had written this piece for the #VAW month , it is cross posted on the VAW blog It was a long time ago. I was thirteen and we lived in South Bombay. Family friends had come over to stay with us….
My column in today’s Lokmat The biggest open secret inIndia was her disappearing daughters. As prosperity has increased, family size has reduced, and advances in medical techniques have led to families choosing only to have a boy, by terminating pregnancy when a…
An abridged version – of this appeared The DNA on Thursday … ( i abridged it, i really need to learn to express ideas in fewer words) 🙂 Way back in the mid 1970’s, my parents were posted in New Delhi. I…
…. and seen to be done. Manu Sharma is guilty of Jessica Lall’s Murder. There were a flurry of SMS’s last night – mostly from women friends – and for all of us, at some level, it had become personal. It was…