Harini Calamur's Writings
In Early Aryan Mythology there is a constant battle between two sets of celestial beings. The Devas, or the Gods, and the Asuras and the Demons. Incidentally the Persian myths have the Asurs as the Gods, and the Devas as the Demons….
Yesterday dad got discharged – he would say released – from the hospital. As hospitals go, Holy Spirit is a wonderful place. Nurses and doctors and the staff focused on healing. They day i brought him into the hospital (the first). they…
When I was growing up, my father's major obsessions was lost civilizations, and glories of the past. A considerable amount of his pin money – money left over after running the household – would go on stuff like Erich von Daniken, Charles…
There was this article on new year’s day that i read while i was at the hospital. If dad had seen it his heart would have probably hit 500. It was about a retired professor called John Itty, from somewhere in the…
On the first, dad got admitted to the ICU of the local hospital. His heart beat was around 260 (normal rate: 75) The doctors and nurses are excellent. They have stabilised him and brought him back to normal. But he has a…
For me this year is marked by one person, whose belief in what should be right, led to his death. Satyendra Dubey. Ironical, because Satyendra – in Sanskrit means the Lord of Truth. Rarely do you see someone living up to the…
The ET today says that the most seen brand last month on TV was by brand BJP. The Congress needs to revisit the Rediff Campaign for Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress
I was a student in the UK, when British Aerospace (the guys who mak(d)e Rolls Royce) decided to move some x thousand jobs to Taiwan or some such place. And there was a toon in the Guardian the next morning. Two workers…
There is a joke that goes around media circles in Mumbai. It is about a survey conducted by a baby food manufacturer on mothers and their attitudes towards children. The agency spends a fair chunk of the clients money to do cutting…
Rani has decided that my room is her room. she sleeps on one of my old bathrobes, and an old lungi of mine is her safety blanket. Yesterday appa and amma got her a rawhide contraption as a treat. Something that she…