Harini Calamur's Writings
Today is Cogito TV’s fourth anniversary 4 years of being an entreprenuer. What have I learnt? Humility – possibly, Patience – definitely. Above all, the sense that i have to do my best to succeed because going back to work in an…
There were soap operas – there still are — and then there were space operas, and now to top it all– we have the comic book opera. DC’s 52 week long extravaganza – aptly named [tag]52[/tag] – combined incredible writing talents to…
Imagine spending an evening with a man who is the verbal equivalent of Mr.Bean. That is essentially the one-liner of the film Bheja Fry. In the film, Vinay Pathak plays Bharat Bhushan, an Income Tax Officer with a passion for Hindi films…
Woody Allen in Annie Hall (on California) Annie: It’s so clean out here! Alvy (Woody): That’s because they don’t throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.
In the 60th year of being Independent and the 57th year of being a Republic, a different kind of May Day Story – 27-year-old Ratnamma, a garment factory worker, was forced to deliver a baby on the streets of Bangalore because her…
Part of the last week or so has been spent at the University Of Mumbai – Kalina – correcting BMM papers. One of the good things about this years lot has been the number of students who seem to have understood the…
Orange cotton salwars will run colour. And men in my life are not amused when their white vests & briefs turn light orange!!
From today’s Express: A BJP MP from Gujarat was on Wednesday detained at the Indira Gandhi international airport in New Delhi for allegedly misusing his wife’s passport by taking another woman.Babubhai Katara, who represents Dahod in the Lok Sabha, was detained by…
This from today’s DNA: A 24-year-old undertrial in Orissa has married a teenage girl whom he allegedly raped and got pregnant a few years ago. The traditional tribal wedding between Padmini Murmu, 16, and Khaira Hansda was solemnised at the Circle Jail…
Last week, while the PC was playing dead, I re-saw Peter Weir’s, almost prophetic, The Truman Show Long before (well actually, a couple of years before) popular reality shows that dot the tv landscape, or the 24 by 7 Big Brother style…