Harini Calamur's Writings
…. he did tell the truth when he said he had… ……been putting together my own back-of-the-envelope guess list it was really the funniest thing i had read in a long, long time …:) Obama – “Hmmm, let’s see. He’s young. I’m young….
… My Column in today’s DNA: You need to have been stuck under a rock in Antarctica or living in furthest reaches or China to have missed the popular protest in Egypt that led to the fall of a thirty-year-old dictatorship of…
… and then Yudisthtra’s chariot came down to earth – The Battle, Mahabharat – following Yudishtra’s lie to Drona on the death of Ashwattama. Yudishtra, for me, is the one character in the Mahabharat whose motivations and actions I can least understand….
I don’t normally post forwarded mails on this blog, possibly because the moment i see a multiple forward sign or lots of e-mail ids i tend to delete the message. But, this one is from an old, old friend. And it had…
… will it take, before it is called a Murder … is it that when people are murdered – if those we support, murder them – they aren’t murders ? are the murdered in Gujarat any less murdered than the murdered in…
So, Anish Trivedi is a castiest who thinks that quality of work in Government offices has gone down because of reservation. That is not my view but the views of the court that convicted him to six months of imprisonment… the question…
Spring is peeking out after a coldish winter. the plants at home have begun sprouting little green leaves … while there is still the earths and browns from winter left over, it looks like nature is renewing herself … Pink and Green…
If you were heading a market segment – English News – that is consumed by 0.4% of the total TV audience – 11% consume English content btw – then, logically, you will do everything possible to keep pissing off the bulk of…
Bharat Ratna Bhimsen Joshi – has gone to join the Gandharvas … I feel a personal loss – like a close, much loved family member has died.
I always preferred Republic Day to Independence Day….. I suppose the preference got created in school where Independence Day ‘celebrations’ were about sacrifice and biographies of martyrs and leaders read out by a tinny voice on a terrible loudspeaker. the voice –…