Harini Calamur's Writings
If you are from a generation that grew up watching Star Trek , then you will probably read this with the same excitement that I did. The BBC reports that Scientists in the US and Austria – working independently – have managed…
With the many wonderous things that come into my inbox on a daily basis, is a standard media offer brought to me courtsey Indiantelevision.com. This is one of the better TV sites in India – and it is free. So I guess…
If you can get a virus on your mail, then it stands to reason that one day your cell will receive it. Afterall both deal with data, and if one can be prone to attack, so will the other. So it wasn’t…
There was no link, afterall, between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. And this is not from the anti war movement or Michael Moore, but the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States – a bipartisan commission set up to…
I spent the better part of last night clearing out spam from the Media Musings site. I felt positively homicidal at the end of the exercise. I wonder if that sort of action against spammers will be considered as insecticide!
The monsoons began last night in Mumbai. Full ishtyle. Non stop rains since about 9 pm. 16 or so hours later it seems like Mumbai has received a much needed wash. The only problem is that Rani is terribly confused. All her…
It almost seems that the spread of stories in the main stream media is viral. An idea that jump from on-line to paper to magazine to on line again. Usually within a short span – say a fortnight or a week. This…
One of the givens of living in Mumbai is during monsoons – commuting will take up to three times as much time – because most of the arterial roads dissolve. what is left is rubble, potholes and pain. Yesterday when we were…
The first time since we started Cogito TV, the three of us bunked work to go and see a film. ’twas Mani Ratnam’s Yuva. It is, say the publicity material, a film of three men whose lives intersect on Hoogly Bridge. And…
Sometime this week I read that Hindustan Lever Limited was relaunching Close Up and had planned an entire advertising blitz to make it a more “happening” toothpaste. Today when I dropped into Rediff a bizzare site awaited me:) A nice red home…