Harini Calamur's Writings
This year I began teaching culture studies to my students. Culture studies is not the study of culture perse – but the study of cultures – their power structures internally and in relation to other cultures – their internal & external dynamics…
[tag]Coca Cola Speed Jamming[/tag] – connect ho jao. produced by us for Zoom. As always – the behind the scenes was a closer photo finish than the contest. Good fun – all in all. I really miss the process.
“To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction” – Bhagvad Gita
There was a time when a taxi ride was a treat. I have chlidhood memories of travelling by taxi between Churchgate and Colaba. The taxi driver was invariably a Sardar in a white outfit with a great turban. As a child, i…
I love the shoot floor. The activity. The entropy. The sense of something being created. The feeling of building something. And there is nothing like the day before the shoot.
Control Room put up for the Show at film city The show – "[tag]Coca Cola Speed Jamming[/tag]" The venue – Studio number 15, Film City The Date – 7th July (yeah! we actually shot on 7.7.7 and that was by default, not…
The [tag]Bandra Worli[/tag] sea link. When i sometimes take the worli sea face route – i get to see the work in progress. Each time i am there – the link seems to have inched ahead. Aah if only the rest of…
the ToI – the world’s largest selling English paper – puts out a supplement where a South Indian – to be precise superstar Rajnikant – is referred to as a Southie. What next? a Muslim referred to as a Mossie, a North…
I approached the book with some trepidation. I am not particularly fond of authors from the sub continent who write in English. I often find their narrative overtly lyrical, pretentiously mystical, and deliberately desi. But, so many people had told me so…
There is a nasty bug going around and I have caught it. symptoms – dry cough that racks your body and hurts your ribs, shivers, fever that leaves you drenched in sweat when it breaks, extreme weariness All in all very uncomfortable….