Harini Calamur's Writings
If Monday was about retrieving my license, Tuesday started getting the car towed to the mechanic. There are few things as scary as a car coming to a full stop while taking a turn at a busy intersection. Especially if there is a BEST…
My column in today’s DNA Pakistan fighting terror was a bit like a bunch of ladies of tradable virtue endorsing the need for chastity. It has been a fortnight since a team of American Navy SEALS landed in Abbottabad, smashed into the…
This appeared in the April edition of Pragati. If there is any country in the world that is a poster child for dictatorship, it is Pakistan. Over the last two and half decades at least, Pakistan seems to have been more stable…
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…
I am, on most days, a centrist moderate who has a 10 degree oscillation on issues to the left and right. I believe in a safety net, i believe in strong national security. I believe in inclusive politics and I believe in…
Duh …. This from here: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi has claimed that the group was not involved in the Mumbai carnage but said his organisation would admit its mistakes provided it was proved that it was in any way linked…
It is over. people dead. symbols destroyed. and a people stunned. 26/11 is going to be a date etched in our memory for ever – much like 9/11. I am at home watching three funerals that TV channels are broadcasting. Those of…
I was returning home in the evening, stuck in a traffic jam somewhere near Andheri Subway, when dad rang. Dad: [tag]Benazir Bhutto[/tag] has been shot dead Me: How ? ( i meant how would gunmen get past a security cordon… would she…
image : the BBC President (non General ) Musharraf takes charge……again