Harini Calamur's Writings
You wouldn’t know that it was election year in the US by a comment made by a GWB campaign worker.. She said: American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones — or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better….
The best way, if you are a Government, to divert attention from your fuck ups is to ensure that your armed forces is engaged outside its borders. So anyone who cribs and complains about your government can promptly be accused of being…
Wealth without Work Pleasure without Conscience Science without Humanity Knowledge without Character Politics without Principle Commerce without Morality Worship without Sacrifice – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Last night’s television viewing, like much of my viewing in recent days, was just the 9o clock news on NDTV. Over dinner we saw Maninder Pal Kohli – the man accused of raping and murdering British Teenager Hannah Foster, and who was…
.…. with Bhang, liquor mixed with mid-day-meals to make food tastier. In a school in Chattisgarh,children have been fed with a mix of rice, bhang and liquor to make “the food tastier”. I wonder if the death penalty can be administered on…
……. is somewhere between US$500 and US$ 2500 in occupied Iraq. Yes, I know that power was “handed” over, but as long as the US Armed forces remain on Iraqi soil, with the kind of mandate that they have – Iraq will…
While Cigarette smoking can cause cancer and a host of other assorted respiratory/circulatory ailments, it seems that Nicotine – the compund that hooks you to the cancer stick, – has beneficial effects. It wards off the onset of a host of mental…
A new Toyota that can feel is here. Reports the New York Times: Four inventors working for Toyota in Japan have won a patent for a car that they say can help drivers communicate better by glaring angrily at another car cutting…
Last week while going thro’ my video collection – I discovered some gems. The gemmest of the gems was the Blackadder Collection. And the pride of place of this collection goes to season 3, with amazingly rocking episodes episode 1: Dish and…
The older I get, the more I am convinced that our world is some other world’s insane asuylum – with the US being the maximum security zone. What is this brougth on by – well a story where a gentleman agreed to…