Harini Calamur's Writings
My column in today’s DNA In the vast ocean that is the World Wide Web, is a site called Maps4aid.com. It is a crowdsourcing project that meticulously documents violence against women and children in India. Spending a fraction of an hour on…
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…
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…
My column in today’s DNA Dwight Eishenower, the former American President, was asked about his Vice President’s (Richard Nixon’s) contribution to the Presidency. His response was “If you give me a week, I might think of one.” This is the quote that…
My column in today’s Lokmat Times. page 14 Hero, Hero on the Wall – which one of you is tall India. A land of myths and legends. Of heroes and their heroics. Of larger than life men who perform the most…
My column in Today’s DNA Odisha. Sikkim. Andhra Pradesh. Manipur. Natural disasters struck the first two states. Floods in Odisha impacted 2.2 million Indian citizens. People lost lives. Property was destroyed. Development washed away. Sikkim suffered an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the…
My column in today’s DNA In the fortnight following the high of the World Cup victory, middle class India has been on another high – the high of having taken a stand and done something about corruption. People have registered their anger…
An abridged version –  of this appeared The DNA on Thursday … ( i abridged it, i really need to learn to express ideas in fewer words) 🙂 Way back in the mid 1970’s, my parents were posted in New Delhi. I…