Harini Calamur's Writings
Sorry about the extremely bad pun. I learnt today that a major channel is going to launch a game show at 9 p.m. Mon – Thursday, with Karishma Kapoor as the anchor. My first reaction was ouch! Sahara Manoranjan (Sahara One’s earlier…
Cylcone Pyar hit AP and caused destruction to life and property. Almost with cyclical efficience, cyclones have hit AP this year destroying property and life. Around a 60 dead (officially) and 200,000 displaced – evacuated with monotonous efficiency by the armed forces….
It is election time in Bihar, so the status quo will be maintained. But, i would like to see the entire panchayat stand trial for “accessory tothe crime” – and see them sentanced. This story from the ToI: The punishment for rape…
I find the Sangh parivar’s focus on ‘converting’ Adivasis’ to Hindusim very odd. But, even odder is the Sangh parivar’s dedication to a term used by Persian invaders to describe a geographical entity – the people of the Indu river. Indoos. Technically…
The Ladies Tailor When i was a kid, this is the man who made all our clothes. The Ladies Tailor,whom you found on every street, ever nook and corner of every city. He had this huge collection of bound books full of…
Ok. i hate to admit it … but i kind of like the DNA. and i have liked reading it from the first day it came out. (i hate admitting it because i loathed their campaign and my reading DNA was despite…
Happiness was writ large on Nitin’s face as he slipped into his wedding dress. In few hours from now, the girl of my dreams would be my wife, he thought. Little did he realise that the same girl, whom he had courted…
A story from the ToI about caste. Students in a school in Bihar refusing to eat mid-day meals cooked by Dalit Women. The incident occurred in the village of former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, a staunch socialist and champion of social…
The Day has arrived. And after an extensive search through Indian blogdom – this week’s Bharateeya Blog Mela is finally in place. Thank you for all those who nominated. And as usual, this task would have been chaotic without Bloglines. Announcements JK…
One of the saddest stories that I have read in a long time was the furore over singer Parvati Khan being prevented from singing at the sacred Jyotirlingas. The temple loves her music but not the fact that her husband is a…