Harini Calamur's Writings
In an attempt to rein in filesharing, the US sentate has introduced a bill to bring heavy penalties, including upto 10 year jail sentances. In an attempt to stifle p2p, they plan also to impose penalties on devices that enable filesharing. This…
It is with a certain amusement that I see the BJP behaving like the Congress. The Congress since the death of Mrs.G has been a factional party that sways between abject sychophancy and acute back stabbing. Party stalwarts didn’t seem to know…
Last month, a survey was conducted by the U.N. worldwide. The only question asked was – “Would you please give your most honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a HUGE failure….
…. (if you kill one of ours, we will kill four of yours) – or something very close to that – were the immortal lines spoken in the film Sholay. The scene is stark – Ahmed (Sachin) on his way to town…
My mom went off to Chennai (formerly Madras) today – leaving me in charge of Dad, Bro and a devlish pup called Rani – the next ten days are going to be hell. I went to Chtrapati Shivaji Station – as opposed…
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…