Harini Calamur's Writings
A few weeks after the Supreme court spanks the Modi Government rather publicly on the Government’s inability to govern, the families of victims at Godhra have more or less done the same. They say – we can’t get justice in Gujarat. There…
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today inducted 91 new Ministers into his Cabinet thereby giving the largest ever Ministry to the State. The Cabinet now has 98 Ministers. – Hinduonnet 3rd October UP is one of the worst governed…
Read the apalling story of the 16 year old Kurdish girl who was murdered by her father for being too western. The father then tried to commit suicide, but botched the job. A judge in the UK sentanced him to life imprisonment….
Had a screening of Noam Chomsky lecture at Harvard “Distorted Morality“, at Sophia’s. His basic premise is we all hypocrites in that we expcet a high standard of behaviour from others that we are unable to adhere to ourselves. He means in…
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, “thirld world” unity has again reared its head. Reminiscent of the New World Information & Communication Order (NWICO) movements – against cultural imperialism, and the LDC trade blocs to negotiate at GATT and UNCTAD through…
The Supreme Court on Friday said it did not trust the Gujarat government and prosecution to bring the rioters to book. A bench, comprising Chief Justice V N Khare, Justice Brijesh Kumar and Justice S B Sinha, said: “What is the rajdharma…
Today my rickshawalla gave me a heart attack – when he whipped out a mobile phone – at a signal – and had a conversation with a friend. He told me “madam, aaj kal yeh bahut sasta ho gaya hai” (nowadays the…
Once up on a time, not so long ago, there lived a people. The people hads lots in common – they ate the same kind of food, wore the same kind of clothes, stayed next to each other – celebrated eachother’s happiness…
How do u have a conversation with someone you cannot at all relate to? is it that you speak your bit, they speak theirs? will it sound like someone having fun on post prod with a pair of actors from different films….
what ever will be will be. the answer’s not ours to see cas sera sera The great indian compromise. once again. no loss of face on any side (or equal loss of face on all sides) – no change in the status…