Harini Calamur's Writings
The whole week seems to have whizzed by. Came back on Wednesday by sleeper volvo … Shaadi at Ahmedabad was fun. We were put up at the Platinum Hotel, in a place suburb called Anjali. Took lots of pics, spent time more…
Today is the anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition…… it is also the anniversary of a particularly unpleasant personal failure, that was ignited by the demolition…. I was a student in London when the Mosque came down with a whole bunch of…
This from the DNA: An enterprising NRI doctor from East Godavari district has come up with a novel idea of an all purpose and inclusive housing colony for members of the [tag]Brahmin[/tag] community near [tag]Hyderabad[/tag]. Resurrecting the traditional and conservationist ambience of…
Nita has an interesting post on tuitions/coaching classes and this actually began out as a response, but it grew so very long, I decided to post the long form here, the short version is on her site : There are coaching classes…
It is not often that one gets the chance to praise the Central Government. This is one of the rare times, and the reason is their conduct on the [tag]Tasleema Nasreen[/tag] issue. This is the Government position : “The right to grant…
The local banana seller… J.B.Nagar Market, Andheri E, Mumbai…. When we use the term business person or entrepreneur, we usually see this image of a suited male who speaks English and does business. But, she is also an entrepreneur – she takes…
This from CNN-IBN: Many refugees of Nandigram have confirmed that they had been brutally raped. Fear looms large in her eyes, the fear of [tag]CPI-M[/tag] cadres. Forty-year-old Akreja Biwi doesn’t want to go back home anymore. Last Sunday, as the CPI-M recaptured…
Three very different articles related to women – which i kind of found amusing. The first is by Maureen Dowd in the NYT , where she quotes a study conducted by 2 psychologists & 2 economists on pre – mating habits of…
I stumbled across this from Lysander Spooner : Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which…
The ability of people to create nuisance in our lives is possibly directly proportional to our ability to tolerate it. So it was good to read about a school and its students in Kolkatta, that stood up to be counted and went…