Harini Calamur's Writings
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Finished reading [tag]Vrinda Nabar[/tag]’s excellent "[tag]Caste as Woman[/tag]". It looks at women in India not from the point of western [tag]feminist[/tag] theories, but more in terms of looking at India’s own unique socio-cultural systems, which essentially serve to keep the woman as…
[tag]V for Vendetta [/tag]Definitely worth a read. [tag]Alan Moore[/tag]’s [tag]graphic novel[/tag] of a bleak, [tag]dystopic[/tag], Fascist Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear war. In this Britain the rule of law is maintained by the 3 arms of the state – the…
I wondered about Rang De Basanti. If the film had been on Gandhi instead of Bhagat Singh – would the conclusion of the movie have been different?
Last evening SR,SK and I played hookey from work to go and see Rang De Basanti. One of the few films in recent times that completely struck a chord with me. And by the sounds of it – the audience as well….
A few months ago one of dad’s friend’s gifted him this book, which has been gathering oodles of dust on the book shelf. Yesterday, finding nothing light to read – I picked it out of the bookshelf, dusted it, and tried to…
Currently re reading an old favourite. Tranlated by Sir Richard F Burton(the explorer not the actor), and with an introduction by A.S.Byatt Scheherazade’s attempt to save her life and the lives of all the eligible women in the kingdom by weaving a…
My current read is Karen Armstrong’s History of God . Theogony has always fascinated me. So has how Gods are born, grow unfashionable and then die out. . It is almost a peek back into society and figuring out how society evolved…
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince : finished the first reading last night. Great fun. Will read it again over the weekend! JD and I shared the book.
From Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, a para summarizing Einstein’s three papers – that made the scientific world sit up and say, ” why didn’t i think of that” The first won its author a Nobel Prize and explained the…
This from Bill Bryson’s “Short History of Nearly Everything“, my current read – a quote from biologist B.S.Haldane: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose.†Have just begun the book. I am hooked…