Harini Calamur's Writings
This is a story from the Mahabharata, that like many from from that epic , this too has lessons for the modern age. Dronacharya the guru to the Kuru Princes – the 100 Kauravas and the 5 Pandavas – and assorted nobility…
My blog for Tehelka last week 2012 was a somber year exemplified by the general lack of hope. I am not mentioning words like corruption and nepotism simply because they are so very endemic, and increase the level of hopelessness. As a…
My Column in today’s DNA 2012 was the year in which the discourse on violence against women stepped out, from the dingy nooks and crannies that it inhabited, the hushed whispers it was talked in . to into the public space with…
What is development ? it is security to be who you are…. school girls playing kho kho in the area between the school and the temple. Sanaswadi, Shiroor, Pune District Maharashtra Girls in School, look at the smiles – you can’t buy…
A few days ago, I didn’t know there was a rapper called Yo Yo Honey Singh (no, seriously) Hardly surprising given that the main form of music that i consume is Hindustani Classical Vocal. Yet, today i know more about him than…
My blog for Tehelka last week : There is a fabulous quote from the fantastic BBC comedy “Yes Minister“. It deals with ministers and their memoirs : “Any statement in a politician’s memoirs can represent one of six different levels of reality:…
My column in today’s DNA And she died on a Saturday. In a land far away. With her close family around her. A girl whose body gave up the fight against the brutality inflicted on it. A girl who was out for…
And she died this morning. In a land far away. With her family near her. A girl whose only fault it was to think that she was safe in India. In the capital city of India, the superpower in making, a woman out…
My column in today’s DNA In the vast ocean that is the World Wide Web, is a site called Maps4aid.com. It is a crowdsourcing project that meticulously documents violence against women and children in India. Spending a fraction of an hour on…
Last week, Foreign Direct Investment in retail came up for debate and vote in Parliament.It was an opportunity to hear the views for and against the proposed plan. After many sessions of lost Parliamentary hours, it was great to hear politicians state their views for and…