Harini Calamur's Writings
Gender Issues -Mostly from India
(image courtesy – Times of India) Any good boss, worth his/her salt will not expect you to spend too much time with them. Good bosses, empower their teams to make their decisions – allow them space to make errors, and allow them…
(this first appeared on shethepeople.tv ) A headline caught my eye today, and made me grimace. “Chennai man killed by speeding Audi, police to determine if woman driver was drunk.” It made me ask the same question I seek to answer, every…
The Minister of Women and Child Development, Maneka Gandhi, in written response to a question on Marital Rape, in Parliament last week, “It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various…
My dad used to do the laundry, and the ironing. He could cook up a divine meal. he adored his kids, and was adept at changing diapers. He treated women as equals, and brought me up as an equal 🙂He got me a lego set, dolls…
My mother went to one. Between her graduation and her marriage. Before she went to study for her masters. She learned how to arrange flowers, make a salad, lay a perfect table and the rest. When they got married, my father knew…
I write for the @Dna on the 14th of January I am not Perumal Murugan, but I very well could be. So could you or anyone else, who run afoul of a tiny, vocal, rabid fringe that thinks nothing about hounding people…
I write for the print edition of @dna on the 11th of December The first step to tackling crime against women calls for radical attitudinal changes One more December and one more rapein the nation’s capital that has made women across the…
My column in the DNA, earlier this week The Times of India’s stand is pretty much the same as that of khap panchayats – she was wearing revealing clothes, therefore she asked for it Last week, the Times of India, that claims…
An edited version of this appeared in today’s dna Until a few weeks ago, most of us had a barely passing familiarity with Baduan in Uttar Pradesh. Around 200 kms and less than a 4 hour drive from the national capital, Delhi…
And, my column last week for the DNA – on the UPA retrospective Ever been to a theatre to watch a film that on paper sounded fabulous — great director, good casting, top-of-the-line banner, great promos? But when you get inside the…