Harini Calamur's Writings
NCERT – that is currently rewriting Indian history from a Hindutva perspective – has been plagiarising from Yank textbooks. Maybe we should mete out the same punishment that we give those found copying in exams. NCERT – is the National Council for…
found this great site completely in Hindi. Every thing – from the entries to the comments. i think it may be the firs (and only) completely Hindi weblog. Did a bit of digging around and came across nHlog – the blog of…
A few weeks after the Supreme court spanks the Modi Government rather publicly on the Government’s inability to govern, the families of victims at Godhra have more or less done the same. They say – we can’t get justice in Gujarat. There…
today i finally cracked how to get the little Blogwise logo up on the site, and the Popodex logos up on this blog. finally. The last two weeks i have been going through the help files – and giving up before reaching…
I was setting a paper for my students on culture, and i came across a brilliant quote by Bernstein – him of the Watergate fame – “We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not…
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, today inducted 91 new Ministers into his Cabinet thereby giving the largest ever Ministry to the State. The Cabinet now has 98 Ministers. – Hinduonnet 3rd October UP is one of the worst governed…
Read the apalling story of the 16 year old Kurdish girl who was murdered by her father for being too western. The father then tried to commit suicide, but botched the job. A judge in the UK sentanced him to life imprisonment….
China is 1.2 billion plus. Most of them don’t read English. They are fairly fluent in Mandarin or Cantonese or other Chinese dialects. But not English. Much of the content on the web is in English, and will continue to be so….
Last week two of my favourite writers – Hugo Young and Edward Said died. Young was the political columnist for the Guardian, and Said was, well Said – probably the most prolific writer of his times. A scholar, an idealist, a supporter…
Had a screening of Noam Chomsky lecture at Harvard “Distorted Morality“, at Sophia’s. His basic premise is we all hypocrites in that we expcet a high standard of behaviour from others that we are unable to adhere to ourselves. He means in…