Harini Calamur's Writings
The success of Harry Potter not withstanding, it is a bit difficult – for someone brought up as a religious rationalist – to believe in witchcraft. Not that I don’t know people who don’t. I have an aunt who told me that…
There was a story of a boy called Ramu who herded sheep deep into the forest. Now Ramu was a lazy boy and didn’t like long walks into the forest. He would rather sit by the edge of the forest and play…
Yesterday the terrorrists bombed a whole bunch of Churches in Iraq. No that is not what is the glimmer of hope. That is provided by the senior Iraqi Shiite Cleric – Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani – who condemned the attack and…
Just when it seemed that the rains will fail in Mumbai, it rained. And how. The last 6 days have been almost non stop rain. And this wasn’t the drizzle sort of rain, but the full bodied down pour that washed Mumbai…