Harini Calamur's Writings
A parliamentary democracy is made of checks and balances. There is a government and there is opposition. We don’t elect Gods, nor do we elect people with absolute power. The role of the Government is to ensure that they uphold the Constitution…
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It is over. people dead. symbols destroyed. and a people stunned. 26/11 is going to be a date etched in our memory for ever – much like 9/11. I am at home watching three funerals that TV channels are broadcasting. Those of…
for your defenders are dead – 14 police including ATS head Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar, and ACP Ashok Kamte died defending Mumbai the men who claim to love you have no spine – where is the Thackeray khandaan. where is…
The second day of the horror. Terrorists rained bullets and grenades inside the city, its symbols and killed, and maimed. It is a military like operation – a small elite task force, fighting an urban battle. Except that, unlike the military it…
And it happened again. Except with a difference. This time there were armed gun men spraying in addition to bombs. My brother was getting home from Chembur. He had gone for a colleague’s wedding. And, he got late. and later. and even…
“It’s a free country !” I snarled at my mother, when I was 16. I can’t remember what it was for, but i remember her response. “There is a difference between liberty and license” she said. “Liberty or Freedom comes with its…
Since i got back from Nepal, life has been strange. between migranes, non stop edits, battles with a viral flu – that has left me woozy; and the work load that is piling up; and the fact that the three of us…
Finally after a year in pre production, Jhing Chik Jhing went on the floors in Dhule on the 10th of November 2008. It is Cogito’s first foray into films. Shishir & Pushpank are on location in Dhule. Shirish and I are holding…
This morning a bunch of Priests visited our house. Two of them seemed to be grihasta’s (householders), and one seemed to be a Sanyasi – he was wearing the saffron of renunciation. They said the shloka’s, blessed the family and left. They…