Harini Calamur's Writings
3 days a week, 3 hours at a go, for the last three years – I have been teaching students at [tag]Sophia College[/tag], [tag]Mumbai[/tag],the basics of media. I enjoy it. Looking at theories of media over a decade after i studied it…
Last night millions of homes in Mumbai had their first conversation in ages. The reason, television channels were blanked out by cable operators. The reason, Cable operators were protesting against police raids following a High Court Order in December to restrain cable…
Hot on the heels of people turning up in thousands to drink the sea water (turned sweet) at Mahim creek, comes the story of a whole bunch of temples in MP having idols that turned into milk guzzlers. What was a fairly…
There is something very disturbing about media houses falling over each other to sanitize the image of [tag]Rahul Mahajan[/tag]. For someone who indulged in an orgy of excesses, with his father’s urn lying in the next room, and who ended up in…
One of the key rules of working life is that you better mark your attendance. If you don’t regularyturn up for work, a) your don’t get paid, and if your absence is chronic, b) you get sacked It is some thing that…
Bovine Bliss – getting scrubbed down at the village pond I asked my students once, where would you find a village? The answer was – away from the city. And then came qualifiers – mud huts, no vehicles, farms, animals etal. Well,…
I am ambivalent about the death penalty. I belive that it should exist on the statute books but used very sparingly, by the book, following the rule of law etal. But this is the rational me. When i read articles like this,…
In another world, another time, this could be a name for a cola variant in MAD magazine. Unfortunately, in our world it is a term that is used to describe colas with large doses of pesticide. Naturally the reaction to it is…
I think that the Government has hit the nail on the head in asking religious leaders to intercede in stemming [tag]female foeticide[/tag]. The union ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) has written to Sri Sri Ravishankar, Mata Amritanandmayi, Dinkar, Asaram Bapu…
Pardon the really bad pun, but i had a bit of television news induced diabetes following the wall to wall television coverage of the boy stuck at the bottom of a well. This was the dumb newscasters’ dream come true – what…