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…
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…
rather boring three days. was at holy spirit for death by boredom and a zillion and one tests. caught up on reading and actually read the newspapers instead of getting a RSS feed. Almost died of a heart attack when i saw…
Confession Time. I don’t like buying food – especially vegetables – in malls. Never have. I find their sanitized organization scary. Even when I stayed in London, I would trudge down to the local market and pick up fresh veggies from the…
This announced today Under the six-point guidelines framed by the umbrella body NBA (News Broadcasters Association), the channels shouldn’t be telecasting details of identity, number and status of hostages. Nor should they provide information of pending rescue operations or details on the…
Duh …. This from here: Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Maulana Abdul Aziz Alvi has claimed that the group was not involved in the Mumbai carnage but said his organisation would admit its mistakes provided it was proved that it was in any way linked…
Two very different stories caught my attention today. Both are related to media coverage. One was in the Indian Express by Rajat Sharma, of India TV, quoting a former Army Chief – who had come into the channel to advice producers &…
At another point in my blogging life, i had posted this. must have been some other calamity/ disaster/terror strike. I came across an old poem of [tag]Khalil Gibran[/tag] – used to read him when i was a student. it was the in…
this was supposed to be a longish post, till my dad pointed out that “Indian Intelligence” is an oxymoron. It is used for finding out who, in politics, sleeps with whom. There are rumours that India has Intelligence Agencies. Their existence is…