Harini Calamur's Writings
Last week i had posted my reaction at Dick Cheney being offended by the use of the word Gulag. I observed that it would have been so much more humane if he had been offended by torture perse. Bernardo, Yazad and I…
From Blogenlust, a wonderful word kakistocracy SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk- NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy. Are we a Demoracy or…
I have been infected with, what the blogger who infected Yazad calls, the ….. intellectual version of venereal disease. And Charu has passed it on to me:) So here goes. Total number of books I own: Never really counted. But 6 tall…
If i am a pluralist and am intolerant towards and absolutist viewpoint, does that make me a bad pluralist or a somewhat absolutist?
Last year we did a spot of consultancy for one of the top 5 consulants. The area of consultancy was the business of media. One of the areas that was most striking in its dichotomy was FM radio. 1999 was the year…
This seems to be my day for funny blogs on blogging! This one is from here * Blog you must for your business. * Truth, passion, authenticity a blogger must have * Comment and trackback spam paths to the Darkside are *…
Great post here some excerpts #2. You start a blog. Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You start writing about cheese sandwhiches. You use your full name and the full names of your friends that are involved in your occasionally…