Harini Calamur's Writings
This from CNN-IBN: Many refugees of Nandigram have confirmed that they had been brutally raped. Fear looms large in her eyes, the fear of [tag]CPI-M[/tag] cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore. Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured…
Three very different articles related to women – which i kind of found amusing. The first is by Maureen Dowd in the NYT , where she quotes a study conducted by 2 psychologists & 2 economists on pre – mating habits of…
16th of November is music director Roshan’s death anniversary….. the father of Rakesh & Rajesh & Grand Father to [tag]Hrithik Roshan[/tag] – Roshan gave [tag]Hindi Film Music[/tag] gems such as Taal Mile Nadi ke Jaal Mein, and Barsaat ki Raat…… Here are…
It is not just [tag]Narendra Modi[/tag] who stands in the dock. The [tag]Communist Party of India[/tag] (Marxist) has just joined the ranks of those who use terror to subjugate their own people. The Chief Minister, [tag]Buddhadeb Bhattacharya[/tag] has been as callous as…
….. so much so that he married her…. Rani has perked up her ears at the story…. i can see her scanning my friend circle for a suitable mate.. On the dog(ess) who got wedded…. well the poor bitch !!!
In the [tag]Economic Times[/tag], Entertainment and Media Section, on 1st Novemer. there is a story that had me scratching my head…. Cosmo Films to invest Rs 225 cr for capacity expansion NEW DELHI: Cosmo Films, leading bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and thermal…
I stumbled across this from Lysander Spooner : Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which…
31st October is the death anniversary of one of the greatest music directors of the [tag]Hindi Film Industry[/tag]. This is the first person who went beyond Indian Classical roots, or western classical roots – like many of his contemporaries – and made…
There are some stories that simply don’t make the news, while others more than make up for it in terms of volume……even though both may be in the same zone…..Let’s look at a few random examples: Amitabh Bachchan’s house getting flooded is…
Project Censored has a list of the top 25 censored stories of 2007. This is obviously in the USA. And here censorship does not necessarily mean reports or reportage that the Government bans in a ham handed manner. Oh, those will get…