Harini Calamur's Writings
An entire festival dedicated to the Big B – in New York this month. The 11 film retrospective inlcudes some of my favourites – Anand, Deewar (the old one, not the ghastly new one thank god), Abhimaan, Amar Akbar Anthony. They have…
… leaves today from Srinagar in India to Muzzafarbad in Pakistan. A simple bus journey tries to bring together people separated by barbed wire. The bus service has been named Kaarwan-e-Aaman or Caravan of Peace. A bomb went off yesterday to prevent…
…One of my favourite blogs was missing for sometime. He is now back at a new address. Check out Route 79 at a whole new site.
… to a place where there is no mobile network, no land line connection, no post office, no courier service and no television! Any recommendations!
The last two weeks have been sans PC. The poor thing – overworked and always on – blew its own condensor. and went off to get repaired. Before the prognosis, diagnosis and cure, I was tinkering around with it trying to get…
About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule – a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in. In the last two years one of…
Today’s coloumn by Sucheta Dalal, The Indian Express carries just enough innuendo’s for those inside the media to guess the company. This is rather like the ToI’s breaking story on the Ambani feud. No names. But enough insinuations for people in the…
…. she has grown. She’s now a young lady going through her troublesome teens.
After 11 years in the media, the one thing that i have realised is that there is this mythical thing called Freedom of the Press. The Values attributed to it are impartiality, truth, and a crusade for what is right correct and…
Today, came into my inbox a mail from Business World – “Publishing Industry’s moment of Reckoning” it screamed. So obviously i clicked on it. The story was about Dainik Bhaskar and Zee’s proposed English newspaper, HT coming into mumbai, and ToI moving…