Harini Calamur's Writings
The first was the truckers calling off their strike, and the second the release of the 3 Indian hostages in Iraq. In the former, it was nice to see a Finance Minister stick to his guns, after announcing taxes in a budget…
Laura Bush on whether the top bestselling books list on the New York Times are partisan: I don’t know how they get theirs, because that isn’t always the case on some of the other lists—where Harry Potter is No. 1, 2 and…
… the country cannot be made to suffer because you have decided that the RSS is a target.Don’t make them out to be victims. Don’t repeat the mistakes of Indira Gandhi. What Mani Shankar Aiyer did vis-a-vis Savarkar is idiocy. There are…
Last week the Finance Bill got passed without a murmur – some hundreds of thousands of crores – because you percieved an insult. A whole nation and a system insulted because you and your party still haven’t figured out that you have…
cute forward that I got today from Aparajita: A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, “What are all those…
Or should that be between a rock and a hard place? Should I take up the consultancy and secure the company’s future through the shows that it brings us. or should i turn it down – and stick around figuring out what…
Here’s an irate MS Word user writing in the PC Magazine:- When is the last time anyone talked about Microsoft Word? Here’s a program on its last legs that should probably be discarded and rethought completely. It has become a kludge. This…
Someone in Google has a great sense of creativity, empathy and humour. And all this while unobtrusively getting their logo to reflect current events. This blog is a tribute to someone, somewhere in Google who brings a smile to all our lips…
…. is really what I need. The last fortnight has been madness and it promises to get better (or should that be worse). Everyone wants to offer me a job or a consulancy and offer my company business. And the fuck up…
The Singaporean Premier – Lee Hsien Loong – is a worried man. Worried that his people are not having enough babies. Worried about a declining (population) growth rate. And worried that the island state of Singapore – or Singha poora the kingdom…