Harini Calamur's Writings
One of the things that I have always admired about the Bennet and Coleman Group is their unabashed chutzpah! Kuch bhi bol dete hai. I remember when they launched Indiatimes, the ToI ran a piece on “you can search the web with…
On Sunday I overcame post lunch inertia and trudged around to Regal – the other end of Mumbai – to attend the Bombay Bloggers Meet. It was the first time for me. The meet was held at the Regal Barista – where…
The Good News is that George Lucas has promised to make no more Star Wars films. The bad news is that Revenge of the Sith is the link between the first two dreadful episodes and New Hope. And to be fair, it…
This week has been spent figuring out how to fine tune wordpress. the miracle of the undo button or control+z has been of great help. I have finally figured out how to get pictures on to the site. Of all the plugins…
Last night I went to see Nazar at Fame Adlabs with Anand and his friends. Anand Sivakumaran is also the writer of the film. Let me start by what the film is not. It is not the Eyes of Laura Mars –…
In my inbox today – a peculiar mail. An excerpt from it: Dear Sir/Madam, We request you to take some time off your busy schedule to fill in this questionnaire about “Blogging”. The survey is aimed at finding out what does/could drive…
The ToI reports that the GoI (now that rhymes) is thinking ( and that is an oxymoron) of accrediting internet journalists and bloggers. In a 5 years past its sell by date quote, the Principle Information Officer Shakuntala Mahawal said: We are…
The Pentagon has reached a new low. It has accused Newsweek of being “irresponsible” for suggesting that interrogators desecrated the Holy Koran. The Guardian reports a spokesman for the Pentagon saying: ” ….our reaction is that Newsweek reported something that was factually…
Two years ago, today, the three of us signed the papers and formed Cogito TV. It has been a long, hard, and broke (especially broke) two years. There have been times that each of us has screamed blue murder and talked about…
Two brilliant quotes from two of my oft read blog sites. This one is from Crooked Timber, commenting on Thomas Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat: It takes a long, long apprenticeship laboring the Augean stables of Globollocks to write a…