Harini Calamur's Writings
I had written this piece for the #VAW month , it is cross posted on the VAW blog It was a long time ago. I was thirteen and we lived in South Bombay. Family friends had come over to stay with us….
My column in today’s DNA It is difficult being a woman and read the papers or watch the news and not pull out your hair in sheer frustration at the views being expressed on gender. On Gandhi Jayanti the Union Minister for…
When i was younger, and far more hard headed and terribly more cynical, i found the realm of Magic Realism to be strange. Maybe growing up with Hindi films with God in special appearance, or a dream sequence did that to me….
My column in today’s DNA The cornerstone of a free market economy is competition – many suppliers who compete against each other for the attention and custom of the consumer. For the buyer there is a diversity of products to choose from,…
just began reading, Salman Rushdie’s book Joseph Anton. This is the first part of the paragraph AFTERWARDS, WHEN THE WORLD WAS EXPLODING AROUND HIM AND THE lethal blackbirds were massing on the climbing frame in the school playground, he felt annoyed with…
My Column in today’s DNA Slow-wave sleep (SWS), is the slumber that is not just most restful, but also the most difficult to interrupt. It is the sleep where you have fallen so deep into a shutdown mode, that it would take…
They are nobody’s children. You see them huddled in little groups at traffic signals. chatting, laughing, occasionally cajoling a motorist for some money. Standing in the rains, on a cold winter’s night, on a scorching hot day. Their presence makes me uncomfortable….
My column in today’s DNA The evening of 26th November 2008, saw the beginning of concerted attacks on Mumbai. A squad of highly trained, well-armed terrorists landed in South Mumbai and worked in small teams to wreck death and destruction. Chhatrapati Shivaji…
The DNA has carried a slightly shorter version of my review of Shashi Tharoor’ s book Pax Indica Pax Romana or the Roman Peace is a Latin Term used to describe the, slightly over two hundred year period, when the Roman…
My Column in Today’s DNA Chaos theory is that branch of mathematics that looks at how random results arise from supposedly ‘normal’ events. The most popular representation of this is the Butterfly effect. The basic premise is “a butterfly flaps its wings…