Harini Calamur's Writings
Currently re reading an old favourite. Tranlated by Sir Richard F Burton(the explorer not the actor), and with an introduction by A.S.Byatt Scheherazade’s attempt to save her life and the lives of all the eligible women in the kingdom by weaving a…
The last few weeks have been spent trying to cast kids for a show that we might be doing. The show is centred around 10 year olds – doing what ever 10 year olds are supposed to be doing. The entire process…
She strangled her first two babies to death because they were girls, terminated two other pregnancies because the foetuses were female and lost two baby boys to infections acquired in infancy. Married at 18, Ranu, from Rajasthan, is now fiercely protective of…
Society and Culture has always fascinated me. Why do certain people behave in a particular manner? Why do Tamilians do somethings and Punjabis do something else. And this is more from a macro sociological/anthropological/ethnographic perspective than a micro (psychological) viewpoint. I always…
… right up there with the other great mysteries that include why God(dess) decided to create the universe (she was having a bad day :); to what happens to the other sock (the one that never came back from the washing machine);…
.. just as another blogger Varna received a legal notice and a threat to be sued for 175 crores, in the ongoing saga of IIPM v/s freedom of speech, MSM seems to have woken up and printed its first story. But Varna’s…
I like companies and organisations. I own part of one, and all my working life worked for the other. And one day I hope that my little compay will grow up to embody all the good things that organisations are supposed to….
yesterday’s earth quake in Kashmir once again proved how puny our advances our in comparison to nature’s fury. All that a couple of plates under did was adjust themselves and boom…. 18.000 peoople dead and still counting. An neither the quake nor…
A few weeks ago FE had a tongue in cheek write up on pet grooming – manicure, pedicure, shampoo and conditioning – for the animal in your life (no, not your partner or your spouse). Where animals can be ‘made over’ can…
Fellow (or should that be felli) blogger, Rashmi Bansal has been blogging for quite sometime on Youth Curry. As editor & Publisher of Jam she has a fairly incisive view on issues that impact the youth of today. The issues that she…