Harini Calamur's Writings
It has been a bad 15 months for Coke and Pepsi. It started with the Indian Express breaking the news about ancient rocks in the Himalays being defaced with painted Coke & Pepsi signage. The upror that followed both nationally, and internationally…
A few days ago i wrote about the Perseus report on blogging – which reveals that most blogs started on free blog sites such as this, or xang, or blogspot – well are defunkt. people don’t come back after signing up. My…
From the organisation that brought you the “world is flat” comes the new blockbuster Condoms cause AIDS. Awaited eagerly the rest in the series of brilliant, intellectual thought: Life causes Death Barefoot and Pregnant – women in the modern world Only followers…
Tassie died this morning at 11:05 of massive kidney and liver failure. I loved her like my child. and i will miss her terribly. Tassie came to us about a 18 months ago – beaten up and sad – Tassie was an…
vajra@hotmail.com on 07 October 2003 at 14:02 people like you completely ignore the pride that the BJP and the RSS have brought to the country. They have made us a nuclear power that can stand up and be mighty. people like you…
NCERT – that is currently rewriting Indian history from a Hindutva perspective – has been plagiarising from Yank textbooks. Maybe we should mete out the same punishment that we give those found copying in exams. NCERT – is the National Council for…
found this great site completely in Hindi. Every thing – from the entries to the comments. i think it may be the firs (and only) completely Hindi weblog. Did a bit of digging around and came across nHlog – the blog of…
A few weeks after the Supreme court spanks the Modi Government rather publicly on the Government’s inability to govern, the families of victims at Godhra have more or less done the same. They say – we can’t get justice in Gujarat. There…
today i finally cracked how to get the little Blogwise logo up on the site, and the Popodex logos up on this blog. finally. The last two weeks i have been going through the help files – and giving up before reaching…
I was setting a paper for my students on culture, and i came across a brilliant quote by Bernstein – him of the Watergate fame – “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not…