Harini Calamur's Writings
The roads in Mumbai are in various stages of disintegration. Yesterday I heard that the guy responsible for giving out the contracts for Road Maintenance – a Shivsena chap – has acquired a penthouse in the most expensive part of town. Half…
NDTV reports that there has been a fairly large oil strike in Rajasthan – the 9th one in the last 24 months. Does this mean that the US walks in through Pakistan into Rajasthan – sooner or later? British energy firm Cairn…
Laloo Prasad – the Railway Minister – did something quite amazing today. Amazingly good, I hasten to add. He went into Railway Bhavan and sent home employees who turned up late. He also warned that repeated late comers will be disciplined. Laloo…
This day, 62 years ago, with its leadership behind bars – ordinary Indians rose up to tell the British – go home. Quit India. Bharat Chodo – was the battle cry taken up in the cause of freedom. The previous day –…
At the end of yet another Chinta Baitak> the BJP still looks so confused, that you wonder how they managed to run the country for 5 years. Led by aging dinasaurs they still seem to be singing yesterday’s song with singers who…
No this doesn’t have to do with science.It is a site that presents awards to people who are dead. What is unique about it. Well, The Darwin Awards honor those who improve our gene pool… by removing themselves from it. Of necessity,…
For the first time consumers spend on various media outstrips advertiser spend on media. The difference is over US$ 3 billion. Much of this was on buying or accessing content in various forms. An article in the Media Post carries the details….
The rains continue unabated. I am home – the only day in the week that I have to myself. Sitting by the window and hearing the rain. and boy, is it loud. I have come to the conclusion that I am, at…
he last of the giants passes on. A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away – i went to see an exhibition of his work. Any thing that I say about his work will seem trite and trivial. So let…
wandered across this timepass site – where they have a little programme for Past Life Analysis My prediction In your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern North India around the year 1425. Your profession was that of…