Harini Calamur's Writings
A woman who sells vegetables near the Dadar Flyover. Playing around with it on photoshop (with virtual photographer) gives the pic an almost timeless feel. Who is she? what has her life been like? what is her story ? will it make…
When i was growing up in the 1980’s the big term around was “Brain Drain“. All those kids who went to the IIT”ss and then ran away abroad. Every family we knew had atleast one sibling in the states. Doctors, Engineers, Teachers,…
Three very different pieces of data There will be 18 million orphans to the AIDS epedimic in Africa by the end of this decade. 95% of children with AIDS, across the world, are not receiving any treatment. And the Pope recommends abstinence…
Big sister Originally uploaded by 603sabre. Today is Blog Quake Day and rather than spend time writing reams and reams, i thought i will follow the old adage of a picture speaks a thousand words. A couple of wiki sites on making…
One thing more than any than any other that the earth quake has proven is that man made boundaries are laughable. When natural disaster strikes it does not discriminate country a from country b. Suffering and pain and grief and loss extends…
All through last year, and this – p2p sites have been served with notices. This image is going up on some that have been shut down. It almost seems like a challenge. For everyone of the sites that they shut down a…
My blog is worth $49,679.52.How much is your blog worth? Mine is worth almost USD 50,000. Maybe it is time I sold out and moved to the hills 🙂 The valuation is based on Tristan Louis’s research that was triggered off by…
…. there are Martians high above our skies – just beyond the sight of our satellites – who are using lasers to melt our icecaps. Of course, there is no such thing as Global Warming, it is a figment of imagination of…
One of the biggest spam magnets on my blogsite is the blog mela. for some peculiar reason – both the blogmelas that i have hosted have attracted the only s*pa*m that that this site has seen. The first one attracted ever single…
In another life time i went to Amsterdam. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away. There one of the places that i visited was Anne Frank museum. Like most people who visited – i came away with one question,…