Harini Calamur's Writings
I finally succumbed : I have been coveting an ultra wide for long. After sporadic research – i finally zeroed in on the Tokina 11-16. What do you use an ultrawide for – usually you use it to make a very emphatic…
As though interaction on twitter wasn’t reductionist enough (although, immensely enjoyable & addictive) – they have introduced a binary poll. Yes or no. It is great fun, terribly addictive and requires even lesser interaction. I am expecting polls to take the form…
Chinese Government relaxes the One Child policy. Presumably to prevent extinction within the next 4 generations.
Last week, i can’t remember who asked this question on twitter, whether the rich are better looking than the poor. I may have got the exact wording wrong, but that was the gist. I have been travelling the length and breadth of…
So, Tony Blair finally figures that the invasion of Iraq was a bad idea.He thinks that they had faulty intelligence, bad planning and no clue of what would happen once Saddam was removed. (though he is not sorry for removing Saddam). Â If…
I have been reading, marking and re reading bits of Orwell’s essays, that form part of a collection i got for next to nothing, in one of the amazon sales. The essay I really enjoyed was on the author and social commentator,…
My mother went to one. Between her graduation and her marriage. Before she went to study for her masters. She learned how to arrange flowers, make a salad, lay a perfect table and the rest. When they got married, my father knew…
When you read stuff like this, it makes you wonder, what is it about us – as a species – makes us tend towards such cruelty. A teenage girl was beaten to death by her own family after being forced to live…
Sunrise on the Ganga – #Benaras and, while this isn’t strictly golden – in terms of the hues, that is the first colour that comes to mind, when i see this frame – golden bricks
As i read this, there is only one question that floats into my mind – what kind of indoctrination is this, that allows people to believe that they are doing right by killing someone ? And, what does it take to stand…