Harini Calamur's Writings
Confession Time. I don’t like buying food – especially vegetables – in malls. Never have. I find their sanitized organization scary. Even when I stayed in London, I would trudge down to the local market and pick up fresh veggies from the…
What did he expect ? Abhinav Bhatt, a law student based in Pune, filed a complaint with the magistrate’s court in June 2000, saying that Rediff has committed offence under section 292 of IPC (selling, distributing obscene material). His contention was that…
“Hi, would you like to come and see our flick” An innocuous line, you would think, but one which got K fuming I could see the fumes coming out of her ear. “That stupid child doesn’t know how to handle the client.”…
From today, some reproduction of interesting speeches and writings. It is not about a writer’s block – i keep battling those – but more because these are readings / writings that inspired me at a certain point in life – and they…
Rains have been delayed terribly this year. Intermittent, sparse and playing hide & seek with all of us. It has been terribly depressing – without the rains. The body and the mind have both been feeling extremely tired and as thought there…
Shiva . Mahadeva. Shankara. The greatest of all Gods. The God who is beyond Space and Time. The God other Gods worship and venerate. Those who dont’ understand call him the Destroyer. But, he isn’t. He ends the Universe at the end…
After a few weeks of being immersed in Disaster Risk Reduction – thanks to the documentary, Farmer Suicides and the way out – thanks to our Marathi feature film “Jhing Chik Jhing”, and politics & elections – thanks to the elections; I…
Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi, Raga Desh (i think. if it isn’t please post and i shall make the change ) the you tube generation is going to enjoy the classics ! And, here is one of my favorites – Bhaja Govindam –…
…. i realised when i was looking through my Flickr Stream, that i have more than a fair share of photographs of places of worship, of emblems of faith. Here are some of my favorites : The Brahma temple at Pushkar is…
This morning a bunch of Priests visited our house. Two of them seemed to be grihasta’s (householders), and one seemed to be a Sanyasi – he was wearing the saffron of renunciation. They said the shloka’s, blessed the family and left. They…