Harini Calamur's Writings
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…
read about this bizzare gameshow in China – of all places – where contestants on an entertaiment show were asked to guess how many children died in Beslan. Pravda– yes it has survived the fall of the Soviet Union – reports: The…
Star’s new teaser campaign: given that Star has single handedly managed to turn many of us into non TV watchers – spearheading the dreadful Saas Bahu Sagas – i find their campaign highly ironical