Harini Calamur's Writings
On Akshaya Tritiya i am struck by how far we have moved away from traditions, because of the way religious events and packaged, marketed, and sold. I am possibly the last generation that grew up with an oral tradition. Our grandmothers, and…
The communication from banks, for just about generations, is save today ‘bete ki padai, beti ki shaadi’. I am not even getting into the implicit sexism of this, simply because stereotypes work in advertising, and this is how India (and much of…
(image source : here) Facebook tells me, it is Star Wars day. This is how mythology begins. Wait a thousand years, and see it being transformed into a religion, replete with a ‘God’, good and evil, heroes and villains, and most importantly,…
I have begun thinking about loss and grief, and coping with grief, a lot in the last one year. Also, about acceptance, and coming to terms with grief. It isn’t that one doesn’t misses the person who is gone (in my case,…