Harini Calamur's Writings
Rape is a male problem. Men Rape. They have done this through out history, and it is unlikely they will stop unless something is radically done to reform the way they are brought up and socialized.
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,…
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…
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…
“It is a fact that most of the corrupt come from the OBC and the scheduled castes and no increasingly, scheduled tribes and as long as this is the case the Indian Republic will survive” – Ashish Nandy I have been told…
The Times of India, today, quotes a report which claims that Rahul Gandhi said that he was a Brahmin. While it can be argued that since he enjoys a special kind of family based reservation that is dependent on birth not merit,…
The Amul Advertisement The question is, are they ? worthy that is… not in my opinion. they represent the worst of all other Parties in India, the corrupt brazenness of the Congress, the willingness to take to the streets and disrupt like…
My column in today’s DNA: If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to have heard it fall, does it make a sound?’ is an old philosophical question on which there has been much heated argument over the…
When, on day 14, I wrote about Dr.Ambedkar and his words of freedom – a friend ( a real life friend) posted a recommendation – Read Bhimayana. And, JM is a person who knows my reading habits. He has, over the years,…