Murder in Mumbai – K.D.Calamur
April 24, 2012My brother, Krishnadev Calamur’s novel– to be published on July 17th 2012 we are, naturally, very chuffed 😀
Food or Missiles ? Day or Night ? Here or There ? Read or Sleep ? and other choices :D
April 24, 2012As a kid the mother used to have issues with me eating healthy stuff. (she claims she still does). For mom, healthy food included beetroot curry (ugh), carrot sambhar (double ugh), and some equally horrendous concoctions. Needless to say i used to…
The Didi in her Idiocracy
April 24, 2012…with all due respects to Marquez. 😀 Decline and fall of civilisation can be seen best in West Bengal. In 200 years you move froma Raja Ram Mohan Roy driven enlightenment to Mamata Banerjee driven idiocracy. From arresting cartoonists, to painting the…
On RTE – DNA Column
April 24, 2012My 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…
On caste & Rahul Gandhi
April 14, 2012The 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,…
Disappearing Open Spaces in Mumbai – what can You do :D
April 12, 2012That 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)…
The Calamurs
April 11, 2012My 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…
Guest Post – Shubhashish on “Why is it a contempt to disagree with the Supreme Court?”
April 9, 2012Shubhashish 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…
To Pot … :D
April 6, 2012Making 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…
Officer, Gentleman And The Army Mess must read
April 6, 2012This 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…