Harini Calamur's Writings
A few weeks ago FE had a tongue in cheek write up on pet grooming – manicure, pedicure, shampoo and conditioning – for the animal in your life (no, not your partner or your spouse). Where animals can be ‘made over’ can…
Fellow (or should that be felli) blogger, Rashmi Bansal has been blogging for quite sometime on Youth Curry. As editor & Publisher of Jam she has a fairly incisive view on issues that impact the youth of today. The issues that she…
For me, development is not the number of roads we build or flashy flyovers or cars on the road. For the simple reason that there will always be those in society who have the money and power to demand and receive it….
When she tried to shrug him off, Bhura plunged in his fingers into her eyes gouging out her right eye and wounding the left. This was the story of a nurse raped by a ward boy. The judge asks the victim to…
to the Times of India for a headline like this: He came, saw and conquered her! It is a story that deals with rape. They make it read like a bad bodice ripper novel. We have stopped reading the ToI – i…
… students pelt police with stones, police retaliate with bullets. The result between 4 (ToI figure) & 12 (BBC figure) students killed. If something like this happened in Mumbai, there will be hell for the Government to pay. Do we keep quiet…
About 15 months ago -has it only been that long? – i was in Marathwada making a documentary on Self Help Groups set up by destitute women that form the basis of bare foot capitalism. Starting with nothing these women have built…
Over a century ago, French sociologist Emile Durkheim undertook research on why individuals in cities tend to commit suicide more frequently than those who liked in closely knit rural societies. The answer was Anomie– the sense of dispossession. He said anomie exists…
A rape victim expelled from school for being of ‘loose character’ According to reports, the victim was abducted and raped on August 23. Rejecting the rape theory, school authorities alleged that the girl had loose character and later expelled her. NCW is…
I am getting repetitive on this blog. Every 10 days or so I come across a flurry of articles – bloglines that way is very good – on violence against women. I come across articles almost on a daily basis – but…