Harini Calamur's Writings
Layoffs are a part of life – it doesn’t matter if you are in a Capitalist setup, a communist setup, or some combination of the two. There is a point beyond which it is not feasible to keep employees on the payroll,…
Never mind the murder of truth, never mind the spread of hate – the appeasement of the rating gods is paramount
This appeared in the FPJ Last year, when things were somewhat normal, and people went to see comedy shows, comedian Agrima Joshua, during a live show, cracked a joke about the Shivaji statue that is to be installed in the middle of…
My earliest memories of TV ads was this girl, whose skin tone resembled mine, looking upset. She had been rejected by a man who had come to ‘see her’ with his family – to select her as his bride. She failed the…
… i just saw this ad on twitter And, a number of things struck me. The producer in me wondered about the production logistics of shooting this. It must have been a task. Just the thought of socially distancing a crew makes…
So, Elon Musk tweeted that he and his partner Grimes, are going to name their child (her first, and his fifth) X Æ A-12 Musk The best comment I saw on that Reminded me, in spirit, of this
My mother would tell me, as a kid, the women and girls would get the second or third filter coffee decoction . The men and the boys would get the first decoction. Similarly with curds – the men would get the thick curds, the…
It is deliciously funny. Someone, i am guessing, in the management said “we need to do something about refugees. Something classy, but shows we care. But, how do you do this without featuring poor, ugly, people. ” (i kid you not,…
(image courtesy – Times of India) Any good boss, worth his/her salt will not expect you to spend too much time with them. Good bosses, empower their teams to make their decisions – allow them space to make errors, and allow them…
On Akshaya Tritiya i am struck by how far we have moved away from traditions, because of the way religious events and packaged, marketed, and sold. I am possibly the last generation that grew up with an oral tradition. Our grandmothers, and…