Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA Psychiatry identifies a condition called Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), popularly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, in which two or more distinct identities or personalities compete with each other to take charge of the patient’s behaviour. If…
image courtesy NYtimes on twitter A huge fire broke out at Mantralaya – the administrative office of the Government of Maharashtra this afternoon. They are still putting out the fire This image was tweeted by NYTimes – India. who are these people saving…
Sanjay Barua, makes some very interesting points on Europe, Continent building & Leadership and why Europe needs a Dr.Ambedkar what was most frightening was the absence of a shared “narrative” in Europe about the crisis it finds itself in. There is no…
Monsoon have arrived. The rains washing away the heat and the dust of the past few months. There is something uniquely beautiful and reinvigorating about the season – its almost as though its onset revives the parched soul and gives it hope….
The last few weeks have been pretty gloomy if you have been following the Indian Economy. There has been a potential downgrade of rating, lower GDPfigures, lower industrial output, inflation seems to be up, interest rates are up, fuel prices are going…
test (This is posting from an ebook being read on the ipad – without a keyboard) Hobbes in the Leviathan, quoted by Stephen Pinker – The Better Angels of our nature So that in the nature of man, we find three principal…
The Untouchables (1987), the film based around the era of prohibition in the USA, tells the story of a unit of policemen who take down Al Capone. The film is set in the city of Chicago and opens with these lines :…
Scenes from here and there – from various visits and shoots … Balleshwar, Odhisha 2009 This was a little village near Balleshwar in Odisha. The village would fall prey to floods every year and houses would be destroyed.And the village would start…
My column in today’s DNA A utopian society is an ideal one, which is represented by a perfect balance of happy citizens, a responsible state, a cohesive society – where everyone lives happily ever after. In a Utopian society, there is…