Harini Calamur's Writings
Revisiting Orwell. Picked up his collected works from amazon, at a princely sum of Rs.49. In fact, just last week i discovered his collection of essays, that I had got before (for the kindle) and forgotten about. Unlike a traditional book shelf,…
He thought she was a warmonger; she thought he was helping along a genocide. Bass, Gary J. (2013-10-01). The Blood Telegram (Kindle Location 5592). . Kindle Edition. (Gary Bass on the relationship between President Nixon and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi) Among the…
5 years late. But still makes a lot of sense… “Why do people think “free” means diminished quality in one instance, and not in another? It turns out that our feelings about “free” are relative, not absolute. If something used to cost…
“free” is a word with an extraordinary ability to reset consumer psychology, create new markets, break old ones, and make almost any product more attractive. He also figured out that “free” didn’t mean profitless. It just meant that the route from product…
When i was younger, and far more hard headed and terribly more cynical, i found the realm of Magic Realism to be strange. Maybe growing up with Hindi films with God in special appearance, or a dream sequence did that to me….
just began reading, Salman Rushdie’s book Joseph Anton. This is the first part of the paragraph AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE WORLD WAS EXPLODING AROUND HIM AND THE lethal blackbirds were massing on the climbing frame in the school playground, he felt annoyed with…
The DNA has carried a slightly shorter version of my review of Shashi Tharoor’ s book Pax Indica Pax Romana or the Roman Peace is a Latin Term used to describe the, slightly over two hundred year period, when the Roman…
test (This is posting from an ebook being read on the ipad – without a keyboard) Hobbes in the Leviathan, quoted by Stephen Pinker – The Better Angels of our nature So that in the nature of man, we find three principal…
My column in today’s DNA A utopian society is an ideal one, which is represented by a perfect balance of happy citizens, a responsible state, a cohesive society – where everyone lives happily ever after. In a Utopian society, there is…
My brother, Krishnadev Calamur’s novel– to be published on July 17th 2012 we are, naturally, very chuffed 😀