Harini Calamur's Writings
I always preferred Republic Day to Independence Day….. I suppose the preference got created in school where Independence Day ‘celebrations’ were about sacrifice and biographies of martyrs and leaders read out by a tinny voice on a terrible loudspeaker. the voice –…
Yesterday, Parliament didn’t work for the 20th day in a row. It was disrupted from doing any business. I almost expect the headlines, in the next few days to say — “today MP’s did work” …. What does that mean – that…
Over 10 days after the story broke in the Open Magazine & Outlook, the rest of the media seems to have gotten into the act of covering the #Radiatapes – especially the ethics of journalists on the tapes. NDTV went first yesterday…
Last week i had posted on the media black out of the RadiaTapes – filed in the SC as evidence – and that has the who’s who of media, industry and politics – an incestuous oligarchy – in conversation, in an…
Quoted for Truth Mr.Ratan Tata on the dangers of crony capitalism & Banana Republic on Walk the Talk with Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24×7 Banana republics are run on cronyism. People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power…
A week has gone by, but MSM is yet to cover the story in a major concerted manner, though opinion pieces have begun emerging both in India and outside. I have begun compiling a list of all pieces in the MSM, here….
The Outlook Magazine has published the transcripts & recordings of the secretly taped conversations allegedly between Ms.Radia and a variety of luminaries in Business, Politics & Media …. If nothing else, they are entertaining …. could be name dropping, could be an…
Like many others – i read and then heard the recordings, allegedly, between a leading power broker and a leading journalist, with horror… What caused the horror : a) it seems that power brokers are using journalists to fix the composition of…
Open – The Magazine has transcripts & audio files – conversations, allegedly between Barkha Dutt and Niira Radia – the reason I am putting it up here is that the Open Magazine servers have crashed …. This is also being put up…
One of the terms that I have never figured is “Civil Society”. I am a citizen, and I am a member of Society – but I find my self at odds with what the bulk of ‘civil society’ gets upto. It’s not…