Harini Calamur's Writings
Bond’s latest outing, seems tired, jaded and repetitive. It has jumps in (film) logic, leaps of sheer nonsense, and an overwhelming desire to create a Grand Unified Theory of people who hate Bond, and would try and destroy the universe to try…
…very interesting article in CNN about an American computer scientist, Zeeshan ul-hassan Usmani, who is trawling the web to figure what makes an ISIS fighter. based on multiple data points, from various countries, he has coined a term – The Jillenial, the Jehadi…
i went to Damu Nagar yesterday. One of my team mates wanted me to document this. I haven’t done this (documentation) since i took on my corporate role, and at a very basic level, i needed that reality check of being back…
Micheal Caine, playing Alfred tells Christian Bale, playing Bruce Wayne (Batman), about a nihilist called the Joker. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch…
After a long time, i wrote an opinion piece for the DNA. And, it essentially was on why India was not being ruled by the Hindu Taliban. The Indian electorate makes informed and wise decisions – it may not be as literate…
My earliest memories of deepavali, were being woken up at the crack of dawn – have oil put on my head, a mixture of haldi and chandan on the face and body, and dragged into a bath. I must have been 3….
so, there was a march today, to prove that India was tolerant. and, while on the face of it, it was a good idea – who can disagree with the concept of ‘marching for tolerance’, it has gone wrong in terms of…
And, there are some more shots. I have been practising night shooting. It is fun, especially trying to capture varying degrees of brightness at different points of the skyline. A lot of photography is framing. It is the same premise as when…
Raghuram Rajan’s speech to IIT, Delhi. Go read it — My favorite bit: So what does an educational institution or a nation need to do to keep the idea factory open? The first essential is to foster competition in the market place…
I finally succumbed : I have been coveting an ultra wide for long. After sporadic research – i finally zeroed in on the Tokina 11-16. What do you use an ultrawide for – usually you use it to make a very emphatic…