Harini Calamur's Writings
And, finally that day has arrived …. the day we were all waiting for with bated breath. The day entertainment and news jointly mutated to become a completely different entity … newtertainment, perhaps ? As the name suggest Newtertainment , a term…
The world’s largest advertising carrier in today’s Chennai edition : To copy editors at ToI, repeat slowly IIT – Indian Institute of Technology – elite, academic institutes that offer..bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, management and other disciplines. The…
This From Today’s ToI If the state government has its way, it won’t be possible for students to dream of a seat in a professional degree course merely because they have been born in Maharashtra or because they have passed their Std…
A frame filled with History On the right is the “Gateway of India” – built to welcome King George the V – at the height of power of the British Raj. It also marked the point from which the last British troops…
I spent 90 odd minutes today debating – “challenging Left Liberalism” on the offstumped community portal I am pretty much a Liberal centrist moderate who has a 10 degree oscillation on issues to the left and right. There are policy issues on…
March 12th 1993. A time when Mumbai was still Bombay. Lokhandwalla was a set of buildings in progress, where gangs regularly went to war. Where In Orbit & Hypercity Malad were rubbish dumps, when the expressway didn’t exist, when Asiatic and Akbarally’s…
Last evening, SR and I trudged down to Crosswords – Juhu where Sonali Kulkarni’s book “So Kul” was being launched. “So Kul” – an abbreviation of her name is collection of essays from her weekly column in Loksatta. Sonali in addition to…
Madh Island, Mumbai, is dotted with bungalows that are often used for shoots. They are called shoot bungalows – as compared to the private or company bungalows that dot the landscape. We were shooting for a show called Golden Age, hosted by…
(Bharat Jadhav & Chinmay Kambli in Jhing Chik Jhing) On Sunday,20th of February, before a star studded audience made up of luminaries of Marathi stage and screen, at Andheri Sports Complex, Nitin Nandan took home the Zee Gaurav award for Best Story…
The Mylapore (Mayil – peacock; ooru – city) is possibly, my favourite temple. When I am in Chennai i visit Mylapore everyday, sometimes twice a day – much to my family’s amusement. When in Mumbai, visiting temples is not a part of…