Harini Calamur's Writings
Rahul Dravid Rocks. Saw bits and pieces of the last match between the shoot, the edit and the proposal. Man, what a professional. Waching him bat reminded me of a bit of the Mahabharat. It is exam day and Dronacharya – the…
One of the questions that we – as media professionals – ask each other is where are the writers? Where are the writers who penned amazing narratives. that made for such compelling viewing. Where are the men and women who could write…
There was a famous Amitabh Bachchan film called Namak Halal. His character plays a prince hidden away in the village brought up as a country bumkin with a heart of gold. He comes to the big bad city – Mumbai where else,…
The first of the three major consumer extravaganza’s is over. Diwali. The other two being Id and Christmas. There was a time – not so long ago – that we celebrated and had fun on Diwali, yet managed to keep the sense…
In a Guardian Comment, George Monbiot says that the jobs that are moving from the United Kingdom to India – are essentially a return of the jobs stolen by the British over 200 years ago. He talks about how the ghosts of…
The Hindu rate of growth has been a term applied to the Indian economy since Independence till the early 1990’s. A slow but steady economic growth. Hindu rate of growth simply becaus economic planners predicted that it will happen in the next…
This morning Mr.Pravin Togadia became the acting head of the VHP (Vishwa Hindu Parishad) The VHP has been best known for being one of the contributory causes of sectarian politics in India. The other are terrorists in the name of Islam, and…
It has been a bad 15 months for Coke and Pepsi. It started with the Indian Express breaking the news about ancient rocks in the Himalays being defaced with painted Coke & Pepsi signage. The upror that followed both nationally, and internationally…
vajra@hotmail.com on 07 October 2003 at 14:02 people like you completely ignore the pride that the BJP and the RSS have brought to the country. They have made us a nuclear power that can stand up and be mighty. people like you…
NCERT – that is currently rewriting Indian history from a Hindutva perspective – has been plagiarising from Yank textbooks. Maybe we should mete out the same punishment that we give those found copying in exams. NCERT – is the National Council for…