Harini Calamur's Writings
Our film Jhing Chik Jhing is up for release in June. Based in rural Maharashtra, with the backdrop of agrarian debt & farmer suicide, the story is that of a boy – Shyam (Chinmay Kambli – best actor MaTa Sanman, Maharashtra state…
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…
Irena Salina’s film “Flow – For the Love of Water ” aka “Flow – How did a handful of corporations steal our water” is a well made documentary that looks at the issues regarding clean portable (drinkable) water to the world’s population…
(Inspirations – a series that is 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…
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…
Dear Government, Good to know that you are off life support and on your own two feet. One hopes that you can move full steam ahead and deliver things that your earlier version couldn’t. Given that you are fighting fit, here are…
The nationalization buzz – seems to be growing. i seem to be picking up the ‘n’ word everywhere i turn. when banks or companies collapse due to mismanagement and tax payers money is used to bail them out, then the tax payer…
Stuff that made me – in no particular order – think, chortle, smirk, snigger , slurp, nod my head wisely, with sorrow, and in a wtf mode. I shan’t identify which is what …coz it will be fun a year later to…
another gem from stumbleupon Why Solar Power is On the Back Burner.