Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA When the BMC election results came out, pundits on main stream media as well as social media asked if the voting turnout (46%)was an indication of the city that was apathetic. Actually it is not. Other metros…
Bhavna Jain is one of the Candidates fighting the BMC elections from ward 64 in Juhu. She represents the Congress and is part of the Congress NCP alliance. The ward has around 50,000 voters. I went to meet her at her office…
Mahadev Shivgan is one of the Candidates fighting the BMC elections from ward 143 in Chembur. He represents the BJP and is part of the SS-BJP alliance. He is also one of the few candidates who is neither a builder nor…
The elections for Local Self Government, IMHO, is possibly the elections that has the most impact on our everyday life. The elected represented is responsible and accountable for a lot of things from good roads, to water supply, to public schooling in the ward,…
Those who believe that Mumbai is modern, a British creation, have never been to Banganga. is said that the source of the Banganga Pond, in Mumbai, is the Ganga itself. And like the Ganga, the pond is holy, and can wash away…
And after 4 days when the terrorists terrorized, the media went ballistic and people watched a spectator sport – it ended today, 3 years ago. This morning I tried to look for the names of the police and the NSG men who…
My column in today’s DNA 26/11. A day three years ago, when the average Mumbaikar’s sense of relative security was ripped out. It isn’t that Mumbai was a haven of security and peace. Quite the contrary. The last two decades had been…
So Pakistan Published an Ad on 9/11. In the WSJ. The trouble with laughing so much that your stomach hurts, is that there is no time to feel outrage 😀 And, then given that it is the net and there is a…
It has been raining non stop since last Thursday night in Mumbai. I haven’t ventured out of the house since Saturday, when i got home all soaked – after wading through god knows what …. It has, gotten worse or better. the…