Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
My column in @DNA last week My earliest memories are of growing up in Delhi, and going to school there. Amongst those memories was a line that a six-year-old had seared into her subconscious — tu kaali hai (you are dark). It…
(Mumbai from the 12th floor of India Bulls) I physically miss Mumbai when i am away from it. There is something about the city – the sheer energy, the sheer buzz, the lack of pretense. that is missing elsewhere. Maybe people from…
My comment piece in the DNA on the 11th of September In Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, two young men knifed another man who was stalking a woman. The stalker’s family lynched the two. And before you could say “what happened” there was a…
My column in today’s DNA Budget for women: They need real help not gender apartheid In the last budget before the next General Elections, the Finance Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram could not rock any boats. Nor could he undertake the kind of massive spending…
Bites the hand that feeds him – screamed the headline on Firstpost.in on Shah Rukh Khan, reminding me of Sholay. Had discussed the film with my class this morning, and the film was kind of fresh. The introductury scene of Gabbar, he…
This from India Today In the midst of a debate on monitoring content, a Delhi court has restrained social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Youtube from webcasting any “anti-religious” or “anti-social” content promoting hatred or communal disharmony. Additional Civil Judge Mukesh…
Penguin had brought out an entire series of books last year (14 to be precise) to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Indian Republic. Called Words of Freedom – Ideas of a Nation – the series covers a number of luminaries who…
As a kid I used to wait for Mondays. That’s because my father used to come home with comics in his briefcase. Indrajal comics – The Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordan and Bahadur. Then there were Amar Chitra Katha – stories of history…
The one thing I never thought I needed to do in my life was to tell an accounts manager that they shouldn’t courier a Bearer’s Cheque. I was wrong. Ok. today was that kind of a day. Started as SNAFU progressed to…