Harini Calamur's Writings
This from today’s DNA: A 24-year-old undertrial in Orissa has married a teenage girl whom he allegedly raped and got pregnant a few years ago. The traditional tribal wedding between Padmini Murmu, 16, and Khaira Hansda was solemnised at the Circle Jail…
Anyone who participates in a show like [tag]Big Brother[/tag] or [tag]Survivor[/tag] knows that it is not a civilized tea party. It is visceral, viscious and violent (emotionally). The show is about being ‘ugly’ and letting it all hang out. Can you imagine…
Finished reading [tag]Vrinda Nabar[/tag]’s excellent "[tag]Caste as Woman[/tag]". It looks at women in India not from the point of western [tag]feminist[/tag] theories, but more in terms of looking at India’s own unique socio-cultural systems, which essentially serve to keep the woman as…
In a world where journalists are taught that ‘man bites dog’ is news, it is hardly surprising that they will look at a 5 page academic report by the Prime Minister, and pick out the only line that they possibly understood. This…
….. says the DNA – not in so many words, but that is more or less the take away. Some excerpts: Come December 6, residents of Shivaji Park in Central Dadar press the panic button. Many alter their work and daily schedules,…
I am ambivalent about the death penalty. I belive that it should exist on the statute books but used very sparingly, by the book, following the rule of law etal. But this is the rational me. When i read articles like this,…
A couple of years ago to almost the day , a young lady called [tag]Manaroma Devi[/tag] was picked up by the armed forces, under the extremely repressive Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). The state was [tag]Manipur[/tag], the armed forces was a…
Of all the forms of State so far, the modern Republic is the only one based on the consent of civil society. We are all supposedly participants in the state. And we abbrogate a lot of our responsibilities vis-a-vis the society we…
This via Sriram A judge who believes that female lawyers work their way up the system by trading sexual favours. And he vocalised his thoughts while presiding over proceedings at court. He implied that all female lawyers ‘made it’ by using ‘immoral…
Two very different kind of stories that caught the eye today. One of a girl who said NO. When 13-year-old Minati Gagaria from Orissa bags a bravery award from President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday, she will symbolise a punchy…