Harini Calamur's Writings
Sultan of Delhi by Arnab Ray, Aka the Great Bong, is a racy and gripping read about a boy who starts with nothing, and rises all the way to the top of his game. The story starts with a today, and keeps…
I wrote this for She the People, earlier this week Many years ago, I read Margaret Atwood’s, dystopian novel, Handmaid’s Tale. Set around a plausible tomorrow, it looks at a world where fertility has plummeted, and there are a special category of…
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…
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…
A long time ago, just about when i turned 10 – treats were comics. Dad would, twice a month, bring home Amar Chitra Katha comics. You must remember that this was a time when the main source of entertainment was radio. TV…
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….
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…
After almost 3.5 years I turned on my parents’ TV set today to watch Aamir Khan’s show Satyameva Jayate. I must confess upfront that i am not an Aamir fan – i find his films terribly self indulgent, I find his…
There are some movies that you leave the theatre after watching with a big gooey smile on your face. The Avengers is one of them. It is highly unlikely that you will remember anything of the film a week down the line, except that…