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    Column: Legalised Lawlessness and the British Empire

    October 29, 2022 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Review – Animal Farm by George Orwell, narrated by Stephen Fry

    January 8, 2022 by calamur
  • Soul by Pixar
    Films / Reviews

    Film Review: Soul by Pixar – a balm for weary souls

    January 2, 2021 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Book Review: Bhima the Lone Warrior

    April 18, 2020 by calamur
  • Star Trek Picard
    Reviews / Shows

    Review: Star Trek Picard

    April 13, 2020 by calamur
  • Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal
    Books / Reviews

    Book Review : Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal

    January 25, 2020 by calamur
  • Predators and Prey by Abhinav Agarwal
    Books / graphic novels / Reviews

    On Reading – From being a Lapsed reader to Starting to Read Regularly Again

    January 12, 2020 by calamur
  • Natasha Mehra Must Die
    Books / Reviews

    Book Review : Natasha Mehra Must Die by Anand Sivakumaran

    January 3, 2019 by calamur
  • Books / Reviews

    Book Review : The Internet Trap – How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

    November 22, 2018 by calamur
  • India Connected - Ravi Aggarwal
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    Book Review : India Connected

    November 9, 2018 by calamur
And Finally ... India 

Educational Board caught Cheating

October 11, 2003 by

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…

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Blogging in Hindi

October 8, 2003 by

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…

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India Politics 

Godhra and Gujarat

October 7, 2003 by

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…

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Diary 

Achievements

October 7, 2003 by

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…

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Idiot culture

October 6, 2003 by

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…

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India Politics 

How many ministers to run a state?

October 5, 2003 by

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…

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Honour Killings

October 5, 2003 by

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….

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Sinicization of the Internet

September 30, 2003 by

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….

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Young and Said

September 29, 2003 by

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…

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Diary India 

Distorted Morality

September 28, 2003 by

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…

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Harini Calamur –  works at the intersection of digital content, technology, and audiences. I write mainly on Economics, Development, Politics, Media bias, Science Communication, and review the content that I consume

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