Harini Calamur's Writings
My Column in Today’s DNA The last few months have seen social media set the agenda as far as main stream media, and even political parties are concerned. A whole bunch of dedicated cyber gureillas are fighting virtual wars on behalf of…
There are some movies that you leave the theatre after watching with a big gooey smile on your face. The Avengers is one of them. It is highly unlikely that you will remember anything of the film a week down the line, except that…
My brother, Krishnadev Calamur’s novel– to be published on July 17th 2012 we are, naturally, very chuffed 😀
As a kid the mother used to have issues with me eating healthy stuff. (she claims she still does). For mom, healthy food included beetroot curry (ugh), carrot sambhar (double ugh), and some equally horrendous concoctions. Needless to say i used to…
…with all due respects to Marquez. 😀 Decline and fall of civilisation can be seen best in West Bengal. In 200 years you move froma Raja Ram Mohan Roy driven enlightenment to Mamata Banerjee driven idiocracy. From arresting cartoonists, to painting the…
My column in today’s DNA The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, known simply as the RTE, came a century after Gopal Krishna Gokhale made an impassioned plea to the Imperial Legislative Council for introducing Free and Compulsory…
The Times of India, today, quotes a report which claims that Rahul Gandhi said that he was a Brahmin. While it can be argued that since he enjoys a special kind of family based reservation that is dependent on birth not merit,…
That Mumbai’s open spaces are under threat is no secret. slowly but surely playgrounds, parks, maidans have all made way for concrete & steel buildings, shanties, garages, small businesses and large, giant parking lots, dumping grounds. Near my house in Andheri (E)…
My grandfather (dada) Calamur Mahadevan (1901 – 1962) – geologist, scientist, nationalist, feminist, father, husband, friend, teacher. Prinicipal at Andhra University. A man who educated his wife after their marriage, and insisted that she go out and work with the less…
Shubhashish asks some tough questions on how the tareeq pe tareeq mode of functioning in courts is eroding & corroding sectors. This is cross posted on his blog. and it has been reposted here without a single correction of a comma, a…