Harini Calamur's Writings
5 years late. But still makes a lot of sense… “Why do people think “free” means diminished quality in one instance, and not in another? It turns out that our feelings about “free” are relative, not absolute. If something used to cost…
“free” is a word with an extraordinary ability to reset consumer psychology, create new markets, break old ones, and make almost any product more attractive. He also figured out that “free” didn’t mean profitless. It just meant that the route from product…
And here are some of my top stories/story arcs featuring the Bat Batman Year 1 – Frank Miller – a no brainer really. It took Batman out of the daylight and placed him firmly back into the night. Written by Frank Miller…
… yes if you have content worth charging for. And, this brings me to a conversation i had a decade ago, while a channel was in the process of being launched. The channel was meant to be free to air and was…
My column in today’s DNA It is election season and, therefore, it must be the time for rhetoric, more rhetoric and even more rhetoric. Each party and its supporters are trying to pitch themselves to us, the voters, and each trying to…
Anand Bhate is a disciple of Pt. Bhimsen Joshi. And a fabulous singer in his own right. I first heard him sing for the film Bal Gandharva, where he was outstanding. I have been trying to scour the shops and the interwebs…
this is where i was, over the new year. And I still haven’t found the time to upload all the pics or even write about it. I make excuses, do people want to read one more bad Hampi post (possibly not)… 🙂…
And, my column last week for the DNA – on the UPA retrospective Ever been to a theatre to watch a film that on paper sounded fabulous — great director, good casting, top-of-the-line banner, great promos? But when you get inside the…
There are only two kinds of interviews that i had conducted in the past – the first was job interviews and the second were interviews in camera, for shows. So when i got asked if I would like to interview Rahul Sood,…