Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
“It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the OBC and the scheduled castes and no increasingly, scheduled tribes and as long as this is the case the Indian Republic will survive” – Ashish Nandy I have been told…
What is development ? it is security to be who you are…. school girls playing kho kho in the area between the school and the temple. Sanaswadi, Shiroor, Pune District Maharashtra Girls in School, look at the smiles – you can’t buy…
My Column in today’s DNA Slow-wave sleep (SWS), is the slumber that is not just most restful, but also the most difficult to interrupt. It is the sleep where you have fallen so deep into a shutdown mode, that it would take…
My column in today’s DNA Way back in 1964, media theorist and technological determinist Marshall McLuhan stated, “The medium is the message”, a line that has been quoted extensively. McLuhan’s work looked at the impact of communication and communications technology on culture….
In the latest economist, on the LIBOR The attempts to rig LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate), a benchmark interest rate…. betray a culture of casual dishonesty; There seems to be a lot of culture of dishonesty. And i remember reading similar…
My feature in today’s Lokmat Maharashtra is reeling under its worst power shortage ever. It is estimated that the State faces a shortage of between 1500 – 2000 MW. For a state that has is to being the number one inIndiain industrial…
The last few weeks have been pretty gloomy if you have been following the Indian Economy. There has been a potential downgrade of rating, lower GDPfigures, lower industrial output, inflation seems to be up, interest rates are up, fuel prices are going…
As a kid the mother used to have issues with me eating healthy stuff. (she claims she still does). For mom, healthy food included beetroot curry (ugh), carrot sambhar (double ugh), and some equally horrendous concoctions. Needless to say i used to…
My column in today’s DNA The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, known simply as the RTE, came a century after Gopal Krishna Gokhale made an impassioned plea to the Imperial Legislative Council for introducing Free and Compulsory…