Harini Calamur's Writings
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.
….election results are being counted. it looks like a nail biting finish. The BJP is trailing the Congress in an election they called 5 months before schedule. Gujarat seems to be making up for its vote in the assembly elections and the…
This story was related to me by an old Congress hand, a TV and film actor. He acted out this scene for me when we were working on a project together – his acting was definitely more engrossing than my recounting. Indira…
It wasn’t the lies that damned them – when they said they were a progressive party but continued supporting the RSS line on implementing ManuSmriti It wasn’t the damned lies that damned them – the crocodile dears on Gujarat, the message that…