Harini Calamur's Writings
From the organisation that brought you the “world is flat” comes the new blockbuster Condoms cause AIDS. Awaited eagerly the rest in the series of brilliant, intellectual thought: Life causes Death Barefoot and Pregnant – women in the modern world Only followers…
found this great site completely in Hindi. Every thing – from the entries to the comments. i think it may be the firs (and only) completely Hindi weblog. Did a bit of digging around and came across nHlog – the blog of…
China is 1.2 billion plus. Most of them don’t read English. They are fairly fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese or other Chinese dialects. But not English. Much of the content on the web is in English, and will continue to be so….
Last week two of my favourite writers – Hugo Young and Edward Said died. Young was the political columnist for the Guardian, and Said was, well Said – probably the most prolific writer of his times. A scholar, an idealist, a supporter…
Was invited to a seminar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research on collaboration between industry and acedemia. The new director of TIFR, seems to be a dynamic sort. Plans to inject new blood in to the system – that would be…
The recent US sponsored resolution on Iran to come clean of its nuclear weapons – is reminiscent of the circus that preceeded the war in Iraq. The East India Company that ruled India for almost one hundred years, had an interesting policy…
Today is the 30th death anniversary of Chilean Leader Salvador Allende – who was overthrown and murdered by General Pinochet Salvatore Allende was head of the minority government of Chile. He planned to usher “democratic socialism” in to the country – and…
There was a very interesting theory that was in vogue a few years ago. It was a theory that sometimes collective memory is based on false memories – or implanted memories. Examples given were 1) a whole spate of children who wrongly…
There is a new book written by the French Author Bernard Levy called “Who Killed Daniel Pearl”. His theory is that the ISI (Pakistani Secret Service) murdered him because he discovered the links between them and “Islamic” terrorists. (the reason why the…
I came across an old poem of Khalil Gibran – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in thing to do in those days. and then when i went into work, i kind of left all that…