Harini Calamur's Writings
The trouble with trying to run 3 lives without letting any of them collide with the other is that something has got to give. and that something is personal space. I have had absolutely no time or energy left for myself –…
Yasser Arafat died today. I hope that he finds the peace that so eluded him in life. He, more than anyone else, ensured that the Palestinians were not forgotten. They didn’t become another statistic in a desire by the West to assuage…
I was shooting for Power Trip. Our guests that day were Kumara Mangalam Birla and Praful Patel. IT was the 4th of November. and the US election results were out. Bush won, as expected. There is nothing quite like using “fear as…
My life continues to move with all the twists and turns of a bad soap. A week ago I was contemplating taking it easy for a few days. It seemed very likely that we would only shoot at the end of the…
The very first episode of the show went on air today – the curtain raiser. Cogito’s first show on Hindi Entertainment television. I directed. Shishir was Technical Director and Shirish the Financial Controller. The first episode with Adi Godrej was supposed to…
A couple of weeks ago I read an article, think that it was by Swaminathan Anklasaria Aiyer, called Kush and Berry, and looked at what little difference there was between the two. Today, while reading the Guardian online, the headline “Kush and…
…. in light of his parties recent losses in the Maharashtra State elections. In fact, he has been whimpering since the end of the Lok Sabha elections. The petulant cry is “hey. It is not me. It is them.” So according to…
Today’s Guardian ran a very good piece on a moral quandry. Doctors in Britain have applied for permission to carry out experiments, that will produce babies with 3 biological parents. The first is the father/sperm. The second and third are mothers/eggs. The…
If a soldier refuses to obey orders, is it Mutiny or an act of conscience? One of the boards’ I am on is currently polarised on the topic. The topic, of course, is a report that states that an American Platoon in…
Saudi Arabia is finally having municipal level elections early next year, ushering in the first whiff of Democracy. In this too there is a caveat. Women cannot vote. The excuses offered are ridiculous. Lack of female staff and photo identity can both…