Harini Calamur's Writings
Dictionary.com has around 76 known usages of the word cast. I am reproducing 6 of those here, do check out the rest – they too are illuminating ! –verb (used with object) 1. to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the…
choking on your coffee is not the best way to wake up. as i was catching up on the morning’s headlines on google news – this one caught my eye. fYi – there is no word called fule copy editor – is…
This from the DNA in “Why are we comfortably numb in a violent decade?” on violence in media and on whether it numbs us. It starts with a ‘quote’ ‘Violence repels us but violence also attracts us; Violence alarms us but violence…
Was in Sri Lanka for a week, for a reccie for a NGO film. I didn’t really do the tourist circuit, but saw the Sri Lanka in which people live a work. Villages & communities recovering from the Tsunami, villages and communities…
One of the most difficult parts of teaching is making sure that students get it into their heads that plagiarism is wrong.I am known to have thrown bitch fits when i have discovered chunks of projects from the net. ‘you will lose…
The day after news channels and politicians got their combined knickers in a twist about George Bush’s comments on India’s food consumption contributing to rising prices some interesting stats : Figures released by the US Department of Agriculture for 2007 say each…
…. are always fun (except for the newspaper concerned), but they take a life of their own when the newspaper masks the fact that it has been made an idiot, by taking the moral high ground….. What am I talking about…. well,…
[tag]Ficci Frames 2008[/tag] began yesterday in [tag]Mumbai[/tag]. This year's theme was sustaining development. As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues….
In the [tag]Economic Times[/tag], Entertainment and Media Section, on 1st Novemer. there is a story that had me scratching my head…. Cosmo Films to invest Rs 225 cr for capacity expansion NEW DELHI: Cosmo Films, leading bi-axially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) and thermal…
The NYT has an excellent op-ed on corruption. Specifically, corruption in the context of the Iraq war. Called Suicide is Not Painless (a kind of hat tip to MASH whose theme music was "Suicide is Painless"). It starts with the suicide of…