Harini Calamur is a media entrepreneur, film maker, columnist, writer, blogger, teacher & the main slave to an imperious hound(ess)
A 5-year-old girl was out playing in Delhi, when she was kidnapped. Taken to a room in the same building in which she stayed with her family, she was raped and brutalised with objects. The men then scurried back to their villages in Bihar, abandoning the child without food and [...]
When Rahul Gandhi addressed the CII conference, those who oppose him and his party, got #PappuCII (stupid) to trend on Twitter. A few days later when Narendra Modi addressed the FICCI conference, Congress supporters on Twitter got #Feku (someone who makes tall claims) to trend. (Hashtags are a useful way [...]
Jane Wyman, the first wife of the late US President Ronald Reagan was once asked how it was being married to him. She answered that he was a great guy, but had only one shortcoming, “Ask him the time and he’ll tell you how the watch was made.” In the [...]
Ajmal Kasab had just turned 21 when he and his fellow band of terrorists attacked India on 26 November 2008. He was 18, when he began his descent into crime and terror. The youngest unnamed accused in the horrific Delhi gangrape case was just a shade under 18, when he [...]
This is a folk tale/parable based around the characters of the Mahabharata. I am not quite sure if it forms part of the main body of work comprising the Epic, or if it is a localised tale, but it is a tale that comes to mind often. This story takes [...]
25th February headlines and story links via Google News – India Edition Google News is my landing page for news and opinion, and has been for the best part of the last decade. It acts as an aggregator of news from local, regional, national and global sources, and provides it [...]
This is section 66a of the IT Act : Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc. – Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,- 66A. Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc. Any person who sends, by means of [...]
There was a time when very little English was used by Bollywood. What little was in the form of expletives – Dharemendra flaring his nostrils and casting blazing looks at the bad guys as he rasped “you bloody bastard”, or the heroine giving drop dead looks to the hero as [...]
When stars collide, there is a tremendous amount of destruction, energy release and new beginnings. It is the law of nature. When maverick superstar – actor, director, producer, dancer, iconoclast – Kamal Haasan, got on the wrong side of the Tamil Nadu State Chief Minister, Puratchi Thalaivi Dr Jayalalitha Jayaraman [...]
The Report of the Committee on Amendments to Criminal Law, also known as the Justice Verma Committee – unveiled its recommendations yesterday. Constituted after the spontaneous protests following the Delhi Gang rape case, the Committee headed by Justice J.S Verma, and with Justice Leila Seth and Gopal Subramanium – [...]
Zero Dark Thirty has hit the screens to much controversy, debate, acclaim and box office success. The film deals with the decade long hunt for master terrorist Osama Bin Laden The film is a fascinating study in looking at shades of good and evil. There is a thin line between [...]
This is a story from the Mahabharata, that like many from from that epic , this too has lessons for the modern age. Dronacharya the guru to the Kuru Princes – the 100 Kauravas and the 5 Pandavas – and assorted nobility in the region, decides to test his students [...]
