Harini Calamur's Writings
It is election time in Bihar, so the status quo will be maintained. But, i would like to see the entire panchayat stand trial for “accessory tothe crime” – and see them sentanced. This story from the ToI: The punishment for rape…
I find the Sangh parivar’s focus on ‘converting’ Adivasis’ to Hindusim very odd. But, even odder is the Sangh parivar’s dedication to a term used by Persian invaders to describe a geographical entity – the people of the Indu river. Indoos. Technically…
One of the biggest spam magnets on my blogsite is the blog mela. for some peculiar reason – both the blogmelas that i have hosted have attracted the only s*pa*m that that this site has seen. The first one attracted ever single…
In another life time i went to Amsterdam. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away. There one of the places that i visited was Anne Frank museum. Like most people who visited – i came away with one question,…
The Ladies Tailor When i was a kid, this is the man who made all our clothes. The Ladies Tailor,whom you found on every street, ever nook and corner of every city. He had this huge collection of bound books full of…
Ok. i hate to admit it … but i kind of like the DNA. and i have liked reading it from the first day it came out. (i hate admitting it because i loathed their campaign and my reading DNA was despite…
Happiness was writ large on Nitin’s face as he slipped into his wedding dress. In few hours from now, the girl of my dreams would be my wife, he thought. Little did he realise that the same girl, whom he had courted…
A story from the ToI about caste. Students in a school in Bihar refusing to eat mid-day meals cooked by Dalit Women. The incident occurred in the village of former Bihar chief minister Karpoori Thakur, a staunch socialist and champion of social…
George W Bush is hoping that the spirit of 9-11will help him get out of the mess that his administration’s ineptitude has landed him in. Imagine a government so incompetent, that it makes Vilasrao Deshmukh look good! I wonder whether invoking the…
The Day has arrived. And after an extensive search through Indian blogdom – this week’s Bharateeya Blog Mela is finally in place. Thank you for all those who nominated. And as usual, this task would have been chaotic without Bloglines. Announcements JK…