Harini Calamur's Writings
Sometimes Media Bias can come through in something as simple as a the difference between the headline and body copy. This from CNN IBN The Headline reads – “Cong Not in Favour of PM-BJP Unity : Khursheed” And the content of the…
This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as …selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off…
.. and we (as in the online community) click a lot. Yahoo News had an interesting piece on audience trends. ….surfing for p*rn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches…
In the tradition that I have been brought up in, Ganpati is a nitya bhramachari (an eternal celibate). His brother Kartikeya has two wives. Legend has it that he is cursed by his mother to wander the shores till he finds…
Nita has a good post here that looks at Mayawati and Obama, there is an interesting discussion that is also taking place. I began putting my two bits in and it just got so long that i decided to blog about it…
61 years old. Happy Birthday. And on this day let me link two ads. one from a time that i was growing up, and the other from now. Hamara Bajaj – 1989 Hamara Baja – 2006 Bhuland Bharat ki Bhuland Tasveer Naye…
After a long time, I picked up a book by an Indian author and managed to finish it. And enjoy it. And, not tear out my hair in frustration at the pace of the story or the meta level philosophical inputs that…
… it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off. People were killed, and maimed. And, a lot of us look upward to the skies and shout bastards…… it is a completely Pavlovian response. Bastards…..Bastards……it is just that…
… will the Right do what is right ? Rajya Dharma or Rajniti Dharma — i wonder which the BJP will follow on the nuclear deal ? What the withdrawal of support by the Left has proven is that ‘Secularism’ – in…
.. the most powerful leaders of the most powerful nations, met to discuss the Global Food Crisis. and they of course had cheese — it was part of the 6th course — of 8 courses.. You would think that in the modern…