Harini Calamur's Writings
Books, Movies, Music, Graphic Novels, Games
Most mass media practitioners will tell you that classical music is elitist. that it is mean to be enjoyed in rarified atmospheres, with others in their social class. There is a general perception that mass audiences will not enjoy classical music. And, that,…
(image source : here) Facebook tells me, it is Star Wars day. This is how mythology begins. Wait a thousand years, and see it being transformed into a religion, replete with a ‘God’, good and evil, heroes and villains, and most importantly,…
I can’t remember if I saw, the original Jungle Book on television, or in the cinema hall. But, i remember watching it the first time, with complete delight. I loved the characters – Bagheera, the panther who is Mowgli‘s guardian angel in…
All in all, it wasn’t quite as bad as the critics made it out to be. Definitely worth a watch on the big screen. The film is set some 20 years after Batman first picks up his cape and cowl. Batman/Bruce…
My brother got me to watch this lovely 5 minute clip, on his mobile. A talking head. No flashy camera movements. No overwhelming music. Nothing. Just incredible story telling. I watched on, because i wanted to know what happened next. What is…
I have been reading, marking and re reading bits of Orwell’s essays, that form part of a collection i got for next to nothing, in one of the amazon sales. The essay I really enjoyed was on the author and social commentator,…
Bhimsen Joshi having a lot of fun, signing this very famous composition in Raga Yaman. It is a drut bandish – drut (fast tempo), and bandish (literally a composition that is relatively fixed). I have, in my collection somewhere, the same bandish sung by…
Every year, for the media studies programme that I have been teaching for the last decade or so, i try and set assignments that get students thinking. The course, in addition to the syllabus, has documentary viewing, reading of select articles and…
There are men. and men. and men. I can go as far as to say, that each man is a unique specimen, replete with his own set of idiosyncrasies (as is each woman). However, as far as popular fiction is concerned there…
Currently reading, Gail Omvedt on Ambedkar : Toward’s an enlightened India . Began reading it on the flight, back to Mumbai. The military then, as now, seems to bea non-discriminatory haven. Bhiva and his brothers had never experienced untouchability in their earlier military homes,…