Harini Calamur's Writings
Dick Cheney is offendend by Amnesty’s description of Guantanamo Bay as the “American Gulag”. It would have been so much more humane to have been offended by the torture. Stuffing his foot further down his mouth he said: “I think the fact…
A lovely quote from a debate between Peter Hitchens and Christopher Hitchens. The event is the Hays festival. The two are brothers and had not spoken before the event for 4 years. This bit is on Faith: PH: He has several faiths….
Not at all bad. Better that the ToI in terms of Over all News. Better than the Mid Day(which has really gone downhill in the last couple of years) in terms of Mumbai specific news. And these are the two that i…
Van Gogh – Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886 One of my favourite paintings. At a certain level telling you that you are damned by your “habits” for eternity, and at the other telling you that smoking kills. Was…
Jose Saramago is probably one of the greatest writers of our times, and the The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is one of the finest books that I have ever read. It is the story of Jesus – who is not the…
Last week poor Newsweek got jhapoed by the Pentagon for publishing a report on the desecration of the Koran in Guantanamo Bay . The Pentagon put on its most angelic face and swore that nothing of that sort had happened. Newsweek was…
Today, Amnesty International has called for the shut down of Guantanamo Bay – labelling it the American Gulag. Amnesty, in probably one of its most contreversial reports in recent times, says: The US administration’s attempts to dilute the absolute ban on torture…
Read this brilliant article in Wired: 1687: Isaac Newton The universe has one absolute clock: • Time and space are independant of the observer. • Time’s arrow points forward; events move ahead from the now. 1905: Albert Einstein every observer has his…
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For me ,the height of Romantic Scenes in Films was Sunil Dutt crooning Jalte Hai Jiske Liye to Nutan, on a phone. Those old fashioned black phones with the ring dials. Nutan, of course, just cries. Kind, Considerate, Liberal – in the…