Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA In the recent past, the issue of free speech and expression has come to the fore in India. Censorship has been creeping up slowly but surely. It seems that institutions and groups are ganging up to…
My last week’s post on the Tehelka blog platform, on the anniversary of 26/11 40 years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the Munich Olympics. Athletes and sportsmen from all over had come to represent their Nations and win glory for…
My column in today’s DNA The UK is in the throes of a major scandal involving a child sex abuse ring and the attempts of the establishment to cover it up for over four decades. At the centre of the ring is…
My column in today’s DNA Dominant narrative is a set of values, practises and norms that most in that society believe to be true and important. It is ideology that shapes the telling of history, the creation of heroes, and the…
(image courtesy – youth ki awaaz) …of reasonable, peaceful protest. Irom Sharmilla. it is shameful that a government that talks to terrorists, naxals, anarchists, nations that sponsor terrorism – will not talk to a lone woman fasting peacefully for the right to equality –yes,…
My column in today’s DNA Trial by media: Kejriwal is simply on a witch-hunt Madame Defarge is one of the most terrifying characters in modern English fiction. She makes her appearance in A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens’ novel on the…
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN 18 network, had a column that talks about the anger against the ‘leaders’ and their families. He notes the only (or maybe one of the few) exception to the rule More equal than us: Why netas face the…
I had written this piece for the #VAW month , it is cross posted on the VAW blog It was a long time ago. I was thirteen and we lived in South Bombay. Family friends had come over to stay with us….
My column in today’s DNA It is difficult being a woman and read the papers or watch the news and not pull out your hair in sheer frustration at the views being expressed on gender. On Gandhi Jayanti the Union Minister for…