Harini Calamur's Writings
Imagine a scene in a film. A chorus of angry voices. making demands. sounds like a political protests. The camera tracks past a red brick building almost in search of the voices. It moves past a shaded area of the compound revealing…
If you had a company veering on the brink of bankruptcy. – the Maharashtra Government leads the bankrupt states tally with a deficit of Rs.89,000 crores. A set of interesting posers. If the governemnt was a company how would we react. lets’…
I read this amazing article in Outlook. Author C.M.Naim talks about how Islam was amuch a part of his life while he was growing up. And how it was kind, gentle, non-demanding and non-intrusive. And he talks about how he “learnt” his…
India Shining is the new campaign by the Government. Aimed towards the urban dweller, primarily. That talks about the current economic feel good factor. But as a trained economist I see some trends that are truly worrying. They are, in no particular…
In Early Aryan Mythology there is a constant battle between two sets of celestial beings. The Devas, or the Gods, and the Asuras and the Demons. Incidentally the Persian myths have the Asurs as the Gods, and the Devas as the Demons….
There was this article on new year’s day that i read while i was at the hospital. If dad had seen it his heart would have probably hit 500. It was about a retired professor called John Itty, from somewhere in the…
For me this year is marked by one person, whose belief in what should be right, led to his death. Satyendra Dubey. Ironical, because Satyendra – in Sanskrit means the Lord of Truth. Rarely do you see someone living up to the…
The ET today says that the most seen brand last month on TV was by brand BJP. The Congress needs to revisit the Rediff Campaign for Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress
I was a student in the UK, when British Aerospace (the guys who mak(d)e Rolls Royce) decided to move some x thousand jobs to Taiwan or some such place. And there was a toon in the Guardian the next morning. Two workers…
There is a joke that goes around media circles in Mumbai. It is about a survey conducted by a baby food manufacturer on mothers and their attitudes towards children. The agency spends a fair chunk of the clients money to do cutting…