Harini Calamur's Writings
It seems to be open season on formulating legislation… Everyone and his idiot cousin has gotten onto the bandwagon. And, underlying this desire to legislate to solve India’s problems lies a deeply fascist thought -” I know better than you. I care…
When i was in school, in Mumbai, all those years ago – ‘good work’ was done by three powerful men in Mumbai. The first was Varadarajan Mudaliar – immortalised by Mani Ratnam and Kamalahasan in Nayakan – the second was Haji Mastan…
At the outset, I apolgise if this sounds like a tale of a spat in a kindergarten playground. It was one of those kind of days. Morning was spent at the university looking at some terrible answer papers “radio is an…
My column in today’s DNA In the fortnight following the high of the World Cup victory, middle class India has been on another high – the high of having taken a stand and done something about corruption. People have registered their anger…
The Government of India is lurching from crisis to crisis. And, all of these have one thing in common – complicity of ministers’, Alliance Partners’, MP’s in crime –and the Government turning a blind eye to the pillage that has been going…
From my column in today’s DNA – “ “Read WikiLeaks, smirk and move on” Tortuous Convolvulus is one of the most fascinating comic book characters. He appears in Asterix and the Roman Agent. Tortuous Convolvulus is a troublemaker par excellence — he…
An abridged version – of this appeared The DNA on Thursday … ( i abridged it, i really need to learn to express ideas in fewer words) 🙂 Way back in the mid 1970’s, my parents were posted in New Delhi. I…
…. some random photographs of women from around India… The Entreprenuer – One of the things that fascinates me about India are the number of female entrepreneurs. Women who see a business opportunity and plug it in with a product/service…. here is…
… My Column in today’s DNA: You need to have been stuck under a rock in Antarctica or living in furthest reaches or China to have missed the popular protest in Egypt that led to the fall of a thirty-year-old dictatorship of…
… and then Yudisthtra’s chariot came down to earth – The Battle, Mahabharat – following Yudishtra’s lie to Drona on the death of Ashwattama. Yudishtra, for me, is the one character in the Mahabharat whose motivations and actions I can least understand….