Harini Calamur's Writings
I don’t normally post forwarded mails on this blog, possibly because the moment i see a multiple forward sign or lots of e-mail ids i tend to delete the message. But, this one is from an old, old friend. And it had…
… will it take, before it is called a Murder … is it that when people are murdered – if those we support, murder them – they aren’t murders ? are the murdered in Gujarat any less murdered than the murdered in…
I always preferred Republic Day to Independence Day….. I suppose the preference got created in school where Independence Day ‘celebrations’ were about sacrifice and biographies of martyrs and leaders read out by a tinny voice on a terrible loudspeaker. the voice –…
Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
Quoted for Truth Mr.Ratan Tata on the dangers of crony capitalism & Banana Republic on Walk the Talk with Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24×7 Banana republics are run on cronyism. People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power…
The Outlook Magazine has published the transcripts & recordings of the secretly taped conversations allegedly between Ms.Radia and a variety of luminaries in Business, Politics & Media …. If nothing else, they are entertaining …. could be name dropping, could be an…
Like many others – i read and then heard the recordings, allegedly, between a leading power broker and a leading journalist, with horror… What caused the horror : a) it seems that power brokers are using journalists to fix the composition of…
Open – The Magazine has transcripts & audio files – conversations, allegedly between Barkha Dutt and Niira Radia – the reason I am putting it up here is that the Open Magazine servers have crashed …. This is also being put up…
One of the terms that I have never figured is “Civil Society”. I am a citizen, and I am a member of Society – but I find my self at odds with what the bulk of ‘civil society’ gets upto. It’s not…
How many people in India have the ability to bring people from various parts of the political spectrum together ? One and only one, Arundathi Roy. After putting me off the Narmada Bachao Andolan, feeling sorry for tribal development or lack of…