Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
Star Trek is finally dead. Author Orson Scott Card says it is about time. In a irritated write up in the LA Times he lists all things that were wrong about it. Especially the fans’ obsession. They started making costumes and wearing…
Shishir’s signature on his email: The generation that used acid to escape reality Is now using antacid to deal with reality Shirish’s is: all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that a few good men do nothing Mine for…
This a forward from Ingrid: Audre Lorde’s comment about gender-specific occupations: “Being called a poetess brings out the terroristress in me”
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…