Harini Calamur's Writings
March 12th 1993. A time when Mumbai was still Bombay. Lokhandwalla was a set of buildings in progress, where gangs regularly went to war. Where In Orbit & Hypercity Malad were rubbish dumps, when the expressway didn’t exist, when Asiatic and Akbarally’s…
Last evening, SR and I trudged down to Crosswords – Juhu where Sonali Kulkarni’s book “So Kul” was being launched. “So Kul” – an abbreviation of her name is collection of essays from her weekly column in Loksatta. Sonali in addition to…
Madh Island, Mumbai, is dotted with bungalows that are often used for shoots. They are called shoot bungalows – as compared to the private or company bungalows that dot the landscape. We were shooting for a show called Golden Age, hosted by…
Jhing Chik Jhing – the Marathi film that my company Cogito Entertainment produced – is ready. It was part of the panorama at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF) on Wednesday – and ran houseful to an appreciative audience. The last year…
From the ToI – sometime last year When Sonia Gandhi hid her tears and despair behind those famous dark glasses and sat still like a nun at prayer, the embalmed body of her husband Rajiv Gandhi on a hot May afternoon of…
November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are supposed to remember. The most noise however, was for Nehru’s & then Indra Gandhi’s birth anniversary, the Babri Masjid…
Over the last year, I met many people who wanted to enter politics. Students, CEO’s, Social Activists and the rest. I have been giving some sort of general gyaan on the how’s and the what’s of politics – especially building core support groups and…
It’s been three Diwalis since Vikaram Buddhi has been locked up in jail in the USA, without a trial after a trial lasting 3 days (thank you Rahul). He was accused of posting on-line threats against George & Laura Bush. He maintained…
Remember the time you heard about the Nithari killings and  almost threw up – the kids went through stuff that we, thankfully, cannot even imagine.  Remember the Mira Road case – where a man raped his daughters on the advice of  a…
It has been interesting to see the Government at work. And, although there is a tremendous amount of twittering (as opposed to tweeting) and sniggering –Â austerity not a bad idea. With the kind of National Debt that we are carrying, and with…