Harini Calamur's Writings
And it happened again. Except with a difference. This time there were armed gun men spraying in addition to bombs. My brother was getting home from Chembur. He had gone for a colleague’s wedding. And, he got late. and later. and even…
“It’s a free country !” I snarled at my mother, when I was 16. I can’t remember what it was for, but i remember her response. “There is a difference between liberty and license” she said. “Liberty or Freedom comes with its…
This morning a bunch of Priests visited our house. Two of them seemed to be grihasta’s (householders), and one seemed to be a Sanyasi – he was wearing the saffron of renunciation. They said the shloka’s, blessed the family and left. They…
This from the DNA in “Why are we comfortably numb in a violent decade?” on violence in media and on whether it numbs us. It starts with a ‘quote’ ‘Violence repels us but violence also attracts us; Violence alarms us but violence…
Putra – child ; shoka – grief. My paternal grandmother had 7 children. 3 survive. The remaining 4 died between the ages of 3 months and 2 years. She accepted it as Karma. But, despite that she couldn’t help grieving, every so…
Sometimes Media Bias can come through in something as simple as a the difference between the headline and body copy. This from CNN IBN The Headline reads – “Cong Not in Favour of PM-BJP Unity : Khursheed” And the content of the…
This morning I was in class teaching Media Studies. We were looking at different aspects of media — especially the ‘filtering aspect’. Dennis McQuail – media theorist – defines this as …selecting out parts of experience for special attention and closing off…
Nita has a good post here that looks at Mayawati and Obama, there is an interesting discussion that is also taking place. I began putting my two bits in and it just got so long that i decided to blog about it…
i have been out of sorts. generally. maybe it is the fact that i was shooting with vast expanses of nature, maybe it is that i am tired of waiting; maybe it is that those closest to me are getting on my…
61 years old. Happy Birthday. And on this day let me link two ads. one from a time that i was growing up, and the other from now. Hamara Bajaj – 1989 Hamara Baja – 2006 Bhuland Bharat ki Bhuland Tasveer Naye…