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Amrita Shah
The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Of shock and schlockSubscriber Only
April 16, 2009 23:48 IST
Provocation can score important cultural points. But the Akshay-Twinkle act was a damp squib by any measure
Thu, Apr 16, 2009
ALL OVER THE PLACESubscriber Only
March 22, 2009 17:37 IST
M.G. Vassanjis literary homecoming is rather distracted and dated
Sun, Mar 22, 2009Park-ing troubleSubscriber Only
February 20, 2009 00:39 IST
Fencing parks and charging entry fees may bring benefits. But it comes with a price tag
Fri, Feb 20, 2009From babu to baba-logSubscriber Only
February 18, 2009 22:47 IST
Calcutta to Delhi,Shah Rukh to Abhay: Dev.D describes our changes
Wed, Feb 18, 2009Sexual politicsSubscriber Only
January 29, 2009 02:04 IST
Will the outrage over Mangalore finally prompt recognition of the Sanghs woman-hating ways?
Thu, Jan 29, 2009
The beautiful, scandalous peopleSubscriber Only
February 21, 2006 00:46 IST
It is an irony Bollywood aficionados would appreciate. Hours after a city court in Jodhpur sentenced Salman Khan to a year in jail for poach...
Tue, Feb 21, 2006A touch of class to the crassSubscriber Only
December 19, 2005 00:00 IST
For several days now—and with a week more to go for Christmas—many of the larger stores in Mumbai have been festooned with green a...
Mon, Dec 19, 2005Living in a K worldSubscriber Only
December 05, 2005 00:00 IST
For the last few days the media has set up camp outside Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital where Amitabh Bachchan has been recovering from a mi...
Mon, Dec 05, 2005Our friendly neighbourhood donSubscriber Only
November 21, 2005 00:00 IST
Through the ages people have both extolled the glories of the law and rued its blindness. Justice, though often perceived as an inflexible e...
Mon, Nov 21, 2005An unnatural order of thingsSubscriber Only
November 05, 2005 00:00 IST
At any other time flash floods such as those that Bangalore and Chennai experienced last month along with Pune’s unseasonal heavy rainf...
Sat, Nov 05, 2005A media, more user friendlySubscriber Only
October 24, 2005 00:29 IST
It is a chicken and egg situation. Without the relentless coverage by the media, many of the world’s disasters would have passed by us ...
Mon, Oct 24, 2005Truth is just another storySubscriber Only
October 08, 2005 00:00 IST
It’s a good thing the moral police, in Chennai, Benaras or wherever, do not seem too hot on chat shows. If they were, there is one epis...
Sat, Oct 08, 2005The State by the SeaSubscriber Only
September 25, 2005 00:00 IST
For a few dark months back in 2002 Gujarat seemed to be a harbinger of India’s future, a laboratory for the Hindutva experiment to be r...
Sun, Sep 25, 2005Sex, it is a-changingSubscriber Only
September 24, 2005 00:00 IST
Two newsmagazines this week chose to focus on the changing sexuality of the urban Indian woman. India Today claimed that single Indian women...
Sat, Sep 24, 2005That 8000, and rising, feelingSubscriber Only
September 10, 2005 00:00 IST
After weeks of relentless climbing and coasting every potential setback, the Sensex this week crossed a dizzying 8000. Never content, stock ...
Sat, Sep 10, 2005Once upon a time in BollywoodSubscriber Only
August 27, 2005 00:00 IST
Manmohan Desai, maker of effervescent hits such as Amar Akbar Anthony was known to be scathing about critics. The story goes that he even th...
Sat, Aug 27, 2005Friendly neighbourhood iconsSubscriber Only
August 15, 2005 00:00 IST
Who or what is an icon? Lauren Bacall, smouldering star of the forties, set the cat among the pigeons recently by observing that it was absu...
Mon, Aug 15, 2005A chaos theory for MumbaiSubscriber Only
July 30, 2005 00:00 IST
There are many ways to look at the crisis brought about by the sudden and unexpected intensity of the monsoon in Mumbai last week. As a trag...
Sat, Jul 30, 2005A war on the grievance mindsetSubscriber Only
July 18, 2005 00:00 IST
The day after the blasts, a young woman in London claimed she went to work because her grandfather who had served in the war told her it was...
Mon, Jul 18, 2005So is media outrage out?Subscriber Only
July 06, 2005 00:00 IST
For anyone observing the Indian media scene these are strange and contradictory times. On the one hand, there appears to be a boom underway....
Wed, Jul 06, 2005It’s all nicely blended togetherSubscriber Only
June 18, 2005 00:00 IST
Three Hollywood blockbusters of the moment have a common ingredient: stars that are currently in the news for actions in their personal live...
Sat, Jun 18, 2005The liveability indexSubscriber Only
June 06, 2005 00:00 IST
What are the ingredients that make for a progressive urban society? If one looks at the direction that most of our cities are headed in, the...
Mon, Jun 06, 2005Schapelle Corby, national iconSubscriber Only
May 21, 2005 00:00 IST
Over the last several weeks the Australian public has been mesmerised by the fate of a 27-year-old beauty trainee therapist from the Gold Co...
Sat, May 21, 2005The uniform loses its teflonSubscriber Only
May 07, 2005 00:00 IST
Mumbai's middle class is angry. A drunken constable raping a sixteen-year-old in a South Mumbai police booth is what it took to bring the go...
Sat, May 07, 2005Dancing to different tunesSubscriber Only
April 26, 2005 00:56 IST
I do not support bans. I do not support them because they do not work — time and again evidence has shown that a suppressed demand neve...
Tue, Apr 26, 2005
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