Harini Calamur's Writings
I have been infected with, what the blogger who infected Yazad calls, the ….. intellectual version of venereal disease. And Charu has passed it on to me:) So here goes. Total number of books I own: Never really counted. But 6 tall…
If i am a pluralist and am intolerant towards and absolutist viewpoint, does that make me a bad pluralist or a somewhat absolutist?
Last year we did a spot of consultancy for one of the top 5 consulants. The area of consultancy was the business of media. One of the areas that was most striking in its dichotomy was FM radio. 1999 was the year…
This seems to be my day for funny blogs on blogging! This one is from here * Blog you must for your business. * Truth, passion, authenticity a blogger must have * Comment and trackback spam paths to the Darkside are *…
Great post here some excerpts #2. You start a blog. Maybe at first it’s on blogspot or livejournal. You start writing about cheese sandwhiches. You use your full name and the full names of your friends that are involved in your occasionally…
Dick Cheney is offendend by Amnesty’s description of Guantanamo Bay as the “American Gulag”. It would have been so much more humane to have been offended by the torture. Stuffing his foot further down his mouth he said: “I think the fact…
A lovely quote from a debate between Peter Hitchens and Christopher Hitchens. The event is the Hays festival. The two are brothers and had not spoken before the event for 4 years. This bit is on Faith: PH: He has several faiths….
Not at all bad. Better that the ToI in terms of Over all News. Better than the Mid Day(which has really gone downhill in the last couple of years) in terms of Mumbai specific news. And these are the two that i…
Van Gogh – Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886 One of my favourite paintings. At a certain level telling you that you are damned by your “habits” for eternity, and at the other telling you that smoking kills. Was…
Jose Saramago is probably one of the greatest writers of our times, and the The Gospel According to Jesus Christ is one of the finest books that I have ever read. It is the story of Jesus – who is not the…