Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
Sid from Patang was down in Mumbai on Saturday. And SK and I met up with him for a few drinks at Maharaja. One of the very interesting conversations that we had (and we had many) was on the Right to Information…
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…
Last week Charu had blogged about Neil French talking himself out of a job because he said “Women don’t make it to the top because they don’t deserve to. They’re crap.” and went on to further explain the reason – women are…
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…
In the last couple of weeks there has been construction work happening outside our office. A sidewalk is being built. And there is a whole bunch of people working on it. This particular young man wheels in gravel. Adarsh Nagar, where the…
When 6 million Jewish people perish in concentration camps, it is called a Holocaust. When 20 million people died in Stalin’s Soviet Union it was called ruthless Communist murder. When PolPot murdered 1.8 million in Cambodia he was a madman. When a…