Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act 2009, known simply as the RTE, came a century after Gopal Krishna Gokhale made an impassioned plea to the Imperial Legislative Council for introducing Free and Compulsory…
The Times of India, today, quotes a report which claims that Rahul Gandhi said that he was a Brahmin. While it can be argued that since he enjoys a special kind of family based reservation that is dependent on birth not merit,…
That Mumbai’s open spaces are under threat is no secret. slowly but surely playgrounds, parks, maidans have all made way for concrete & steel buildings, shanties, garages, small businesses and large, giant parking lots, dumping grounds. Near my house in Andheri (E)…
My grandfather (dada) Calamur Mahadevan (1901 – 1962) – geologist, scientist, nationalist, feminist, father, husband, friend, teacher. Prinicipal at Andhra University. A man who educated his wife after their marriage, and insisted that she go out and work with the less…
Shubhashish asks some tough questions on how the tareeq pe tareeq mode of functioning in courts is eroding & corroding sectors. This is cross posted on his blog. and it has been reposted here without a single correction of a comma, a…
Making a pot seems to be an almost zen like experience. Total concentration or the piece is ruined. Was at Kumbharwadi at Dharavi yesterday. This goes on the list of things to learn this year. I am going to learn pottery. I…
This by Vishnu Bhagwat, the Naval Chief sacked by a politician (George Fernandes) for refusing to appoint a deputy he thought was unfit, “The arms dealers are 99 per cent foreign companies who have Indian agents here. The disturbing thing is that…
Not the best of waking up in the morning. the jaw hitting the floor in slow motion. The article read, before drinking the first cup of Kaapi only to realise that the alarm was raised over next to nothing. Is this good…
My column in today’s DNA “The intent of matrimony is not for man and wife to be always taken up with each other, but jointly to discharge the duties of civil society, to govern their families with prudence, and educate their children…
the most huggable deity … This, explained the artisan, was Ganapati with the Saibaba head gear. While this was seated on an orange leaf 😀 This was a chilled out one, while these were him in different shapes & forms Needless to…