Harini Calamur's Writings
One of the saddest stories that I have read in a long time was the furore over singer Parvati Khan being prevented from singing at the sacred Jyotirlingas. The temple loves her music but not the fact that her husband is a…
Our poor and their poor are two different things. Everytime I fill out one of these online thingees that ask for annual income I compute my Indian income into dollars and check the correct amount – I don’t use purchasing power parity…
My current read is Karen Armstrong’s History of God . Theogony has always fascinated me. So has how Gods are born, grow unfashionable and then die out. . It is almost a peek back into society and figuring out how society evolved…
Sid from Patang.org has a great new social software in place. And unlike the rest which use fluffly terms like networking, and community – this actually does something tangible. It is a car pool for people who live in a geographical area….
The last few months have been kind of strange. Work has beeen proceeding well. Business seems to have picked up. And there is a level of contentment in personal life, that is satisfying. Yet, over the last 6 months or so –…
How can a nation that cannot provide security for its own people, hope to restore democracy in Iraq and Afganistan? This is New Orleans blogger Maitri on the devastation: A few states kindly offer shelter, guards and other help, but this is…