Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
Somehow having the home computer down, even if you are networked at the workplace — makes me feel cut off, marooned….. The Video card died. It just got up one day, sputtered and breathed its last, leaving a whole bunch of binary…
The first day at [tag]FICCI Frames[/tag]. I attended most of the television sessions that took place. The first was on the "Regulatory Freamework in the Entertainment Industry" – an interesting topic given the government’s desire to regulate, various Public Interest Groups deciding…
This year’s [tag]FICCI Frames[/tag] is the first one that we have attended as a Company. Met old friends. Started new conversations. Met potential collaborators and allies. Figured who was doing what and where (and sometimes to whom). All in all not a…
Move over He-Man, here comes Sachin Brought out by Virgin comics, the one that do Devi and Ramayan 3000 ad … the master blaster is a series where Sachin wields a magic bat to overcome evil. If only he could do the…