Harini Calamur's Writings
just began reading, Salman Rushdie’s book Joseph Anton. This is the first part of the paragraph AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE WORLD WAS EXPLODING AROUND HIM AND THE lethal blackbirds were massing on the climbing frame in the school playground, he felt annoyed with…
My Column in today’s DNA Slow-wave sleep (SWS), is the slumber that is not just most restful, but also the most difficult to interrupt. It is the sleep where you have fallen so deep into a shutdown mode, that it would take…
They are nobody’s children. You see them huddled in little groups at traffic signals. chatting, laughing, occasionally cajoling a motorist for some money. Standing in the rains, on a cold winter’s night, on a scorching hot day. Their presence makes me uncomfortable….
My column in today’s DNA The evening of 26th November 2008, saw the beginning of concerted attacks on Mumbai. A squad of highly trained, well-armed terrorists landed in South Mumbai and worked in small teams to wreck death and destruction. Chhatrapati Shivaji…
The DNA has carried a slightly shorter  version of my review of Shashi Tharoor’ s book Pax Indica Pax Romana or the Roman Peace is a Latin Term used to describe the, slightly over two hundred year period, when the Roman…