Harini Calamur's Writings
An edited version of this appeared in the DNA last week What differentiates our species from the rest of the animal kingdom is, not just the use of words, sentences, grammar and syntax for communication, but also the way these…
Shiva . Mahadeva. Shankara. The greatest of all Gods. The God who is beyond Space and Time. The God other Gods worship and venerate. Those who dont’ understand call him the Destroyer. But, he isn’t. He ends the Universe at the end…
Dr.Ambedkar in Annihilation of Caste: It is a pity that [tag]Caste[/tag] even today has its defenders. The defences are many. It is defended on the ground that the [tag]Caste System[/tag] is but another name for division of labour and if division of…
Today is [tag]Basant Panchami[/tag] – the day traditionally marked as the first day of spring. It is that period of time when the world is so very beautiful, that love blooms….. The [tag]Siva Mahapuran[/tag] describes the first day of spring as the…
[tag]James Watson[/tag] seems to have been infected with the Prince Phillip Syndrome – this is a syndrome when otherwise intelligent men open their mouth in public and plunge head long into it….. It is also sad to see once brilliant men, instead…
….asked SR yesterday …… theoretically, he added rapidly. And given that he keeps accusing me of being theoretical (and I suppose that i am) – i was surprised. Lots’ of things, i said. Theoretically of course. At the core there is my…
January Second, at about 5 a.m. on a cold desert’s winter morning, we drove down from [tag]Jaipur [/tag]to Pushkar. It was my unlce’s 7th death anniversary, and my aunt wanted to offer prayers for his soul. The predominant colours along the journey…
With defenders like this, Islam does not need any enemies! The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organisation of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a web forum saying the pontiff and the west were “doomed”….
Hello and welcome to the first edition of BlogMela this year. And the year has gotten off to a great start. Some great writing in various categories from Desi Blogdom. Here goes. Arts and Entertainment Srican has an account of the nature…
When 6 million Jewish people perish in concentration camps, it is called a Holocaust. When 20 million people died in Stalin’s Soviet Union it was called ruthless Communist murder. When PolPot murdered 1.8 million in Cambodia he was a madman. When a…