Harini Calamur's Writings
The Untouchables (1987), the film based around the era of prohibition in the USA, tells the story of a unit of policemen who take down Al Capone. The film is set in the city of Chicago and opens with these lines :…
My column in today’s Lokmat The biggest open secret inIndia was her disappearing daughters. As prosperity has increased, family size has reduced, and advances in medical techniques have led to families choosing only to have a boy, by terminating pregnancy when a…
It is that time of the year when i trudge down to the Mumbai University in Kalina to correct answer papers. It is not a task that fills mewith joy. The university buildings have been designed by the same school that designed…
When the judge says that a wife should be like Sita you can interpret it in many ways in the context of a modern marriage, and even a modern break up. the wife goes with her husband wherever he goes. The wife…
@pawandurani on twitter pointed me towards the story of Rinkle Kumari in Pakistan . I knew there was an issue vis-a-vis the rights of minorities across the board. I knew there were atrocities. but frankly, the occurrences across the border have not been in…
If a boat capsizes in the North East (Assam to be precise) and no one hears of it, are there still casualties ? Hopes dimmed on Tuesday of finding more survivors after an overcrowded ferry split in two and sank in northeast…
As a kid the mother used to have issues with me eating healthy stuff. (she claims she still does). For mom, healthy food included beetroot curry (ugh), carrot sambhar (double ugh), and some equally horrendous concoctions. Needless to say i used to…
Shubhashish asks some tough questions on how the tareeq pe tareeq mode of functioning in courts is eroding & corroding sectors. This is cross posted on his blog. and it has been reposted here without a single correction of a comma, a…
This by Vishnu Bhagwat, the Naval Chief sacked by a politician (George Fernandes) for refusing to appoint a deputy he thought was unfit, “The arms dealers are 99 per cent foreign companies who have Indian agents here. The disturbing thing is that…
And Google Doodle does it again. While it may look colourful, and symbolise Holi, it is in fact for the International Women’s Day. I suppose that this is not the time to write a long rant on why it would be much…