Harini Calamur's Writings
The New Year has been good. I haven’t had a single day off 🙂 January started with me traveling to Shimla for a shoot. The story is that of communities – and how they understand, appreciate and prepare to beat the effects…
Yesterday, elections results in 5 states were announced. The Congress won three of them. I wonder whether the disconnect between the media, the elite and the electorate is so much! I truly respect the PM. I like this government – possibly because…
Like most others in blogosphere, I too read Barkha Dutt’s passionate defense of reportage on News Channels. My first response was to Fisk it. Wikipedia quotes Eric S. Raymond from the the Jargon File: A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or…
At another point in my blogging life, i had posted this. must have been some other calamity/ disaster/terror strike. I came across an old poem of [tag]Khalil Gibran[/tag] – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in…
The second day of the horror. Terrorists rained bullets and grenades inside the city, its symbols and killed, and maimed. It is a military like operation – a small elite task force, fighting an urban battle. Except that, unlike the military it…
“It’s a free country !” I snarled at my mother, when I was 16. I can’t remember what it was for, but i remember her response. “There is a difference between liberty and license” she said. “Liberty or Freedom comes with its…
Nita has a good post here that looks at Mayawati and Obama, there is an interesting discussion that is also taking place. I began putting my two bits in and it just got so long that i decided to blog about it…
… it seems to be almost a pat sort of response. Bombs went off. People were killed, and maimed. And, a lot of us look upward to the skies and shout bastards…… it is a completely Pavlovian response. Bastards…..Bastards……it is just that…
… will the Right do what is right ? Rajya Dharma or Rajniti Dharma — i wonder which the BJP will follow on the nuclear deal ? What the withdrawal of support by the Left has proven is that ‘Secularism’ – in…
.. the most powerful leaders of the most powerful nations, met to discuss the Global Food Crisis. and they of course had cheese — it was part of the 6th course — of 8 courses.. You would think that in the modern…