Harini Calamur's Writings
Last week, i can’t remember who asked this question on twitter, whether the rich are better looking than the poor. I may have got the exact wording wrong, but that was the gist. I have been travelling the length and breadth of…
So, Tony Blair finally figures that the invasion of Iraq was a bad idea.He thinks that they had faulty intelligence, bad planning and no clue of what would happen once Saddam was removed. (though he is not sorry for removing Saddam). If…
I have been reading, marking and re reading bits of Orwell’s essays, that form part of a collection i got for next to nothing, in one of the amazon sales. The essay I really enjoyed was on the author and social commentator,…
My mother went to one. Between her graduation and her marriage. Before she went to study for her masters. She learned how to arrange flowers, make a salad, lay a perfect table and the rest. When they got married, my father knew…
When you read stuff like this, it makes you wonder, what is it about us – as a species – makes us tend towards such cruelty. A teenage girl was beaten to death by her own family after being forced to live…
Sunrise on the Ganga – #Benaras and, while this isn’t strictly golden – in terms of the hues, that is the first colour that comes to mind, when i see this frame – golden bricks
As i read this, there is only one question that floats into my mind – what kind of indoctrination is this, that allows people to believe that they are doing right by killing someone ? And, what does it take to stand…
Bhimsen Joshi having a lot of fun, signing this very famous composition in Raga Yaman. It is a drut bandish – drut (fast tempo), and bandish (literally a composition that is relatively fixed). I have, in my collection somewhere, the same bandish sung by…
Interesting read on why Twitter is dying Here’s my tiny theory, in a word. Abuse. And further, I’m going to suggest in this short essay that abuse — not making money — is the great problem tech and media have. The problem of abuse is the…
Every year, for the media studies programme that I have been teaching for the last decade or so, i try and set assignments that get students thinking. The course, in addition to the syllabus, has documentary viewing, reading of select articles and…