Harini Calamur's Writings
Today, I read about the new motorcycle to be launched by Bajaj. It is called the Avenger. It replaces the Eliminator in the market. When it comes to advertising men’s products there seems to be an overdose of words that refer to…
Last week, i blogged about the judge who asked a rape victim to consider marrying her rapist. Week before last we have the horrifying case of a 17 year old (minor) being raped in a police station. Last Sunday a married woman…
The story so far: Ward boy rapes a nurse, in the hospital, and gouges out her eyes when she tries to resist. “the girl, a nurse, was on duty at the hospital at Karkari mode in East Delhi looking after a comatose…
Consider a scenario. You are a body that has hired a bunch of people to do a particular job. That job could be cleaning the garbage, making out cheques, serving food, managing finance, anything. The person or persons does not turn up…
… seems to be the Sena’s response to the horrific rape of a 17 year old college student in a police chowki, in the middle of the day. And this too in India’s “safest” city for women, Mumbai. In a scathing editorial…
last couple of days my myrealbox.com id has been innundated with mysterious mail. most of them are zip files and get sent straight to the bin. The e-mail id says that it is from someone at fbi.gov. Somehow they didn’t strike me…
Apparently we are turning into a planet of zombies. The Guardian reports: The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers. Doziness, lethargy and…
In the musical, South Pacific – one of the songs is on bigotry. The lines go: You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade, You’ve got to…
Two very different Post Apocalyptic films are a part of my top 10 science fiction movies of all times. Both very different in nature, treatment and a view of how the world will be in the not so distant future. One is…
As a people we – as in Indians – revel in marriage. Not content in conspiring to wed off near and dear ones, we also take enormous amount of pleasure in marrying off others that inhabit the space around us. And we…