Starting Up
May 22, 2004After 10 years of working for Zee TV – the first 9 in Zee Education and the last one in Zee TV – i finally quit to launch a start up – Cogito TV with three former colleagues. Cogitio TV is a…
Harini Calamur's Writings
After 10 years of working for Zee TV – the first 9 in Zee Education and the last one in Zee TV – i finally quit to launch a start up – Cogito TV with three former colleagues. Cogitio TV is a…
This is a story of 3 women – two betis and a bahu. and it has all the ingridients of a daily soap from the ekta kapoor stable. The three characters are: Beti no. 1 – Sushma “Kaikeyi” Swaraj: a beautiful woman….
There is justice in the world. A group of farmers in Gujarat have begun an agitation to get Modi out. I hope that Lallo becomes Home Minister and goes after Modi for the Gujarat riots. Why Lallo? because in his inimitable style…
There are may reasons for Sonia Gandhi to be Prime Minister – her organisational skills, her ability to build consensus, her ability to carry her allies, her ability to reach out and touch the poorest of the poor, her ability to pull…
My brother Krishnadev Calamur (KD) , has written this extremely interesting article in the New Republic. we have been having a running debate on the elections. i am blogging some select quotes from our mails. KD wrote to me on the day…
In the modern American lexion Abu Ghraib has come to denote Pandora’s box. Each day a new set of revelations come out to turn your stomach. Seymour Hersh’s new salvo from the New Yorker this week seems to imply that Mr.Rumsfield lied…
With the elections over, and the mukhota being rejected – the raving right has decided that the only way it will grab power is by moving further right of a scale that most people already thought was fairly extreme. The enfant terrible…
Sitaram Yechuri needs a muzzle. When your alliance has just about got into power, when you don’t know who is supporting this from the inside and who is supporting it from the outside, when you know that the markets are already jittery…
Now that the results are known and the horse trading has begun, a few predictions for the next six months: 1) The Ayodhya issue will miraculously resurface. – the entire raving right will be screaming their guts out for a temple. Supreme…
….. the decision of the BJP to dump the DMK and tie up with the AIDMK must find a pride of place. Wonder if the person who pushed the alliance will end up as metaphorical fish food.