Harini Calamur's Writings
…with all due respects to Marquez. 😀 Decline and fall of civilisation can be seen best in West Bengal. In 200 years you move froma Raja Ram Mohan Roy driven enlightenment to Mamata Banerjee driven idiocracy. From arresting cartoonists, to painting the…
This by Vishnu Bhagwat, the Naval Chief sacked by a politician (George Fernandes) for refusing to appoint a deputy he thought was unfit, “The arms dealers are 99 per cent foreign companies who have Indian agents here. The disturbing thing is that…
Not the best of waking up in the morning. the jaw hitting the floor in slow motion. The article read, before drinking the first cup of Kaapi only to realise that the alarm was raised over next to nothing. Is this good…
The Amul Advertisement The question is, are they ? worthy that is… not in my opinion. they represent the worst of all other Parties in India, the corrupt brazenness of the Congress, the willingness to take to the streets and disrupt like…
My column in Monday’s DNA Have you ever been woken up by a ringing bell when you are deep in slumber? Have you experienced a dry mouth, pounding heartbeat, disorientation and confusion? Or felt a kind of inexplicable fear? It happens when…
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…
from FB The Shiv Sena’s campaign that graced the cover page of the Mumbai Mirror Today, and a public interest response to the same… I am so glad that we are not the agency involved. Also, maybe Aditya needs to go…
Thoughtful Indian observers are well aware that the principal obstacles to rapid economic development are internal, not external. Among obvious constraints are failures of governance, including wasteful spending on subsidies at all levels of government, a dire record on the provision of…
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…
My column appeared in the DNA on Republic Day rather appropriately (it usually appears on a Monday) :D. It deals with the issue of reasonable restrictions on free speech & the 1st amendment to the Indian Consititution that possibly needs to be…