Harini Calamur's Writings
The New Year has been good. I haven’t had a single day off 🙂 January started with me traveling to Shimla for a shoot. The story is that of communities – and how they understand, appreciate and prepare to beat the effects…
Shefaly has a meme up here, on the A to Z of films that she liked, and has very generously asked readers to ‘steal it’ – and i needed something light to blog about — i have overdosed on ‘soapbox’. in fact…
Like most others in blogosphere, I too read Barkha Dutt’s passionate defense of reportage on News Channels. My first response was to Fisk it. Wikipedia quotes Eric S. Raymond from the the Jargon File: A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or…
At another point in my blogging life, i had posted this. must have been some other calamity/ disaster/terror strike. I came across an old poem of [tag]Khalil Gibran[/tag] – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in…
i was there. it wasn’t a mass of humanity as much as many groups, and individuals each protesting or mourning in their own way. Most people smiled at each other,hardly jostled, kept their space, allowing others theirs, and yet bonding. I used…
The second day of the horror. Terrorists rained bullets and grenades inside the city, its symbols and killed, and maimed. It is a military like operation – a small elite task force, fighting an urban battle. Except that, unlike the military it…
“It’s a free country !” I snarled at my mother, when I was 16. I can’t remember what it was for, but i remember her response. “There is a difference between liberty and license” she said. “Liberty or Freedom comes with its…
.. and we (as in the online community) click a lot. Yahoo News had an interesting piece on audience trends. ….surfing for p*rn had dropped to about 10 percent of searches from 20 percent a decade ago, and the hottest Internet searches…
… it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off. People were killed, and maimed. And, a lot of us look upward to the skies and shout bastards…… it is a completely Pavlovian response. Bastards…..Bastards……it is just that…
… will the Right do what is right ? Rajya Dharma or Rajniti Dharma — i wonder which the BJP will follow on the nuclear deal ? What the withdrawal of support by the Left has proven is that ‘Secularism’ – in…