Harini Calamur's Writings
Whenever i feel slightly lost, and tossed about by the stormy winds of life, i listen to this. As much a song as a plea. get my boat back to safety … sort of. more on the Benaras boatman series here Somehow…
As i was reading this piece on Pachauri, i could feel the smoke coming out of my ears. What kind of an idiot commissions such a one sided piece, and shames the victim of sexual harassment ? Pachauri, who is accused of…
three very different stories The first, from the Times of India, is about a couple of cattle traders lynched by “suspected cattle-protection vigilantes“ The deceased, Muhammad Majloom, 35, and Azad Khan alias Ibrahim, 15, were cattle traders and related to each other. Their bodies…
Good read in today’s NYT: two stand out paragraphs, i felt myself nodding in agreement the omnipresence of social media has created a new sort of shame culture. The world of Facebook, Instagram and the rest is a world of constant display…
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…
Some basic maths. most Indians finish their 10th at the age of 16-17 ; their 12th at 18/19 (depending on which part of the year they were born) They finish graduation at 21/22. they finish their masters at 23/24 If they then…
I have been consuming a lot of youtube content. A lot of it is work based research. Some of it is pleasure – primarily classical music on youtube. Others have just landed up on one of my multiple social media time lines….
Right now, India is furiously debating, on traditional and social media, the rights and wrongs of the JNU case. The debate revolves around one question – is it ok to chant anti India slogans (in whatever shape and form) in a democratic…
This morning’s amusement was Amol Rajan, editor of the British Paper, Independent, stating that his paper was going to refer to Mumbai as Bombay, to prevent “Hindu Nationalists” from getting their way “The whole point of Bombay is of an open, cosmopolitan…
The Purna Swaraj Declaration, made on the 26th of January 1930, by the Indian National Congress, was a move away from asking for Dominion Status and asking for Complete Independence, as a Republic of equals (us) who will determine their own path and…