Harini Calamur's Writings
The World of News
My column in the DNA on October 16th 2014 “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” This…
My column in the DNA, earlier this week The Times of India’s stand is pretty much the same as that of khap panchayats – she was wearing revealing clothes, therefore she asked for it Last week, the Times of India, that claims…
… yes if you have content worth charging for. And, this brings me to a conversation i had a decade ago, while a channel was in the process of being launched. The channel was meant to be free to air and was…
My column in today’s DNA 4 8 hours. It has been an interesting two days in terms of news coverage. The British royal baby and Bollywood royalty makeup dominated news. “It’s a Boy” screamed the headlines, across the world. The Duchess of…
My blog in last week’s Tehelka This is a folk tale/parable based around the characters of the Mahabharata. I am not quite sure if it forms part of the main body of work comprising the Epic, or if it is a localised…
25th February headlines and story links via Google News – India Edition Google News is my landing page for news and opinion, and has been for the best part of the last decade. It acts as an aggregator of news from local,…
My column in today’s DNA Budget for women: They need real help not gender apartheid In the last budget before the next General Elections, the Finance Minister Mr.P.Chidambaram could not rock any boats. Nor could he undertake the kind of massive spending…
Rajdeep Sardesai, Editor-in-Chief, IBN 18 network, had a column that talks about the anger against the ‘leaders’ and their families. He notes the only (or maybe one of the few) exception to the rule More equal than us: Why netas face the…
My column in today’s DNA The evening of 26th November 2008, saw the beginning of concerted attacks on Mumbai. A squad of highly trained, well-armed terrorists landed in South Mumbai and worked in small teams to wreck death and destruction. Chhatrapati Shivaji…
My column in today’s DNA On a slow news day, a girl in Guwahati got molested by a gang of men, who saw nothing wrong in groping, pinching, punching, stripping, feeling up and mauling the victim. In fact, they seemed to…