Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA When the BMC election results came out, pundits on main stream media as well as social media asked if the voting turnout (46%)was an indication of the city that was apathetic. Actually it is not. Other metros…
from FB The Shiv Sena’s campaign that graced the cover page of the Mumbai Mirror Today, and a public interest response to the same… I am so glad that we are not the agency involved. Also, maybe Aditya needs to go…
Mahadev Shivgan is one of the Candidates fighting the BMC elections from ward 143 in Chembur. He represents the BJP and is part of the SS-BJP alliance. He is also one of the few candidates who is neither a builder nor…
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…
The extended drama that took place at the Ram Lila grounds is over. The main protagonists – the Government & Team Anna, have both gone home to regroup and renew. Team Anna is using its newly gained status as media darling…
It has been raining non stop since last Thursday night in Mumbai. I haven’t ventured out of the house since Saturday, when i got home all soaked – after wading through god knows what …. It has, gotten worse or better. the…
And it is over. A show couldn’t have asked for a better season finale. Last night Parliament didn’t vote … Arnab gasped like a fish out of water ‘but, but, but.. they were supposed to vote‘ . Vote they didn’t. instead they…
My column in today’s DNA The events unfolding in Delhi are fascinating. Battered by scam after scam, with some of its ministers in jail, a punch drunk UPA 2 looks like a shadow of a government. Its other ministers and spokespersons have…
So, I conducted a poll today. On Twitter. Didn’t set up an online poll because if I can buck the system and vote multiple times, so can anyone else. Therefore this was done the old fashioned way. I asked a simple question…
Yesterday, Parliament didn’t work for the 20th day in a row. It was disrupted from doing any business. I almost expect the headlines, in the next few days to say — “today MP’s did work” …. What does that mean – that…