Harini Calamur's Writings
I spent 90 odd minutes today debating – “challenging Left Liberalism” on the offstumped community portal I am pretty much a Liberal centrist moderate who has a 10 degree oscillation on issues to the left and right. There are policy issues on…
My mother told me, a long time ago, never to debate religion or politics with strangers. i am breaking that rule tonight! there is a panel discussion (more like panel typing) on “Challenging Left Liberalism” . It is being ‘held’ at the…
March 12th 1993. A time when Mumbai was still Bombay. Lokhandwalla was a set of buildings in progress, where gangs regularly went to war. Where In Orbit & Hypercity Malad were rubbish dumps, when the expressway didn’t exist, when Asiatic and Akbarally’s…
The Mylapore (Mayil – peacock; ooru – city) is possibly, my favourite temple. When I am in Chennai i visit Mylapore everyday, sometimes twice a day – much to my family’s amusement. When in Mumbai, visiting temples is not a part of…
There is no better sign of a party losing all signs of perspective than to attack Sachin Tendulkar on the eve of his 20th anniversary. Which is essentially what Balasaheb Thackeray did. Thackeray said his “friendly advice” to Tendulkar was that he…
It’s been three Diwalis since Vikaram Buddhi has been locked up in jail in the USA, without a trial after a trial lasting 3 days (thank you Rahul). He was accused of posting on-line threats against George & Laura Bush. He maintained…
Remember the time you heard about the Nithari killings and almost threw up – the kids went through stuff that we, thankfully, cannot even imagine. Remember the Mira Road case – where a man raped his daughters on the advice of a…
On his 140th Anniversary, one of my favorite quotes from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : The roots of violence . Somehow we have moved so far away from those ideals Wealth without work. – i wonder if the global economic meltdown would have…
Being in love with God. Filled with passion for God. Having a mystical connect with God. Having communication with God that bypasses organsied relgioun. Where you stop referring to God in the terrifying patriarchal formality – and refer to him in the…
It has been interesting to see the Government at work. And, although there is a tremendous amount of twittering (as opposed to tweeting) and sniggering – austerity not a bad idea. With the kind of National Debt that we are carrying, and with…