Harini Calamur's Writings
SR, my business partner, moved last year to Gurgaon. He has been regaling us with stories ever since, during his visits to Mumbai. Gurgaon sounds like the wild west, meets hilly billy country in sparkling new steel and chrome mall-dom. I have…
The extended drama that took place at the Ram Lila grounds is over. The main protagonists – the Government & Team Anna, have both gone home to regroup and renew. Team Anna is using its newly gained status as media darling…
My column in today’s DNA It has been a decade since al-Qaeda took the war in the Middle East to the doorsteps of the Americans. 9/11 became a watershed moment for the ‘War on Terror’, with the US and its allies recognising…
So Pakistan Published an Ad on 9/11. In the WSJ. The trouble with laughing so much that your stomach hurts, is that there is no time to feel outrage 😀 And, then given that it is the net and there is a…
And there is one more bomb blast. This time, outside the Delhi High Court. Many are dead, many more are injured. The excuses and accusations have begun. As have the high pitched, almost frenzied, coverage of news channels. Everyone has a…
Chomsky, as always, makes for interesting, yet uncomfortable reading. There are no answers to his questions, I wish I could be an absolutist – but the introspection makes for a revealing experience. On the eve of 9/11 he writes If the responsibility of intellectuals refers to…
My father, on the Anna Hazare Saga. My dad worked with the State Trading Corporation for a good part of his life. Childhood memories included being told not to use the phone – the Govt. paid for it – and sending back…
This from India Knowledge at Wharton – India’s Luxury Market: Unlocking Consumers’ Taste for the Finer Things India accounts for only 1% to 2% of the global luxury market, behind countries such as Brazil and Poland. And India is behind China on…
It has been raining non stop since last Thursday night in Mumbai. I haven’t ventured out of the house since Saturday, when i got home all soaked – after wading through god knows what …. It has, gotten worse or better. the…
And it is over. A show couldn’t have asked for a better season finale. Last night Parliament didn’t vote … Arnab gasped like a fish out of water ‘but, but, but.. they were supposed to vote‘ . Vote they didn’t. instead they…