Harini Calamur's Writings
From Blogenlust, a wonderful word kakistocracy SYLLABICATION: kak·is·toc·ra·cy PRONUNCIATION: kk-stkr-s, käk- NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. kak·is·toc·ra·cies Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. ETYMOLOGY: Greek kakistos, worst, superlative of kakos, bad; see caco– + –cracy. Are we a Demoracy or…
Great post here some excerpts #2. You start a blog. Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You start writing about cheese sandwhiches. You use your full name and the full names of your friends that are involved in your occasionally…
A lovely quote from a debate between Peter Hitchens and Christopher Hitchens. The event is the Hays festival. The two are brothers and had not spoken before the event for 4 years. This bit is on Faith: PH: He has several faiths….
Two brilliant quotes from two of my oft read blog sites. This one is from Crooked Timber, commenting on Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat: It takes a long, long apprenticeship laboring the Augean stables of Globollocks to write a…
Star Trek is finally dead. Author Orson Scott Card says it is about time. In a irritated write up in the LA Times he lists all things that were wrong about it. Especially the fans’ obsession. They started making costumes and wearing…
Shishir’s signature on his email: The generation that used acid to escape reality Is now using antacid to deal with reality Shirish’s is: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that a few good men do nothing Mine for…
This a forward from Ingrid: Audre Lorde’s comment about gender-specific occupations: “Being called a poetess brings out the terroristress in me”
last couple of days my myrealbox.com id has been innundated with mysterious mail. most of them are zip files and get sent straight to the bin. The e-mail id says that it is from someone at fbi.gov. Somehow they didn’t strike me…
Apparently we are turning into a planet of zombies. The Guardian reports: The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers. Doziness, lethargy and…