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Amrita Shah
The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Saved by the little ideaSubscriber Only
April 11, 2005 00:37 IST
A bus is not a glamorous object. It does not have the elegant eloquence of the dove with its gracefully outstretched wings and pristine whit...
Mon, Apr 11, 2005Immorality, where is thy sting?Subscriber Only
March 26, 2005 00:00 IST
Some time in the eighties, the features magazine I then worked for asked me to do a story on the alleged casting couch in the film industry ...
Sat, Mar 26, 2005Cry for Mumbai, our little IndiaSubscriber Only
March 12, 2005 00:00 IST
Mumbai is in the news. Not like Jharkhand and Bihar and the Indo-Pak series are in the news, but in a more fundamental, a more reflective so...
Sat, Mar 12, 2005Turn to Page Three. Linger awhileSubscriber Only
March 02, 2005 00:00 IST
Imagine a cigarette being unravelled. The paper coming apart. The filter dropping off — an ineffectual stub. The tobacco spilling out, ...
Wed, Mar 02, 2005Day of the nomad? Not reallySubscriber Only
February 12, 2005 00:00 IST
This week on the Oprah Winfrey show, the interviewee was a young woman called Amber who had gone out with what could not but be described as...
Sat, Feb 12, 2005Charter for world citizensSubscriber Only
January 31, 2005 00:00 IST
On Republic Day last week, victims of a building collapse in Ahmedabad prepared to move back into their new homes four full years after the ...
Mon, Jan 31, 2005Those days of our livesSubscriber Only
January 15, 2005 00:00 IST
It seems hard to recall now that for close to half a decade following Independence we lived with the odd assumption that we were better off ...
Sat, Jan 15, 2005Feminism in the time of MMSSubscriber Only
January 04, 2005 00:00 IST
Anybody who keeps asking — and there are many who do — why feminists oppose beauty contests should watch two film clips currently ...
Tue, Jan 04, 2005Listen to the pseudo-politicianSubscriber Only
December 18, 2004 00:00 IST
A few days ago I was chatting with a friend, a Mumbai stockbroker. This was a man in his late thirties, sophisticated, upper class, and a fe...
Sat, Dec 18, 2004Media’s into the gasp quotientSubscriber Only
December 04, 2004 00:00 IST
What a salacious few weeks these have been! India’s most powerful corporate duo slugging it out in public. A venerated and elderly reli...
Sat, Dec 04, 2004After the earth rocked in BhujSubscriber Only
November 22, 2004 00:00 IST
It has been nearly four years since the Gujarat earthquake. Yet in central Kutch, which suffered the worst of the ravages, the effects are s...
Mon, Nov 22, 2004The subversive Ms ChadhaSubscriber Only
October 23, 2004 00:00 IST
Edward Said identified the tread of empire in Jane Austen’s works. Filmmaker Patricia Rozema brought it into her version of Mansfield P...
Sat, Oct 23, 2004Pieces of that trystSubscriber Only
October 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Punjabi Saga is a compilation of three volumes that tells the story of five generations of a Punjabi family. It is also the autobiography of...
Sat, Oct 09, 2004Dawood’s brother, my MLASubscriber Only
September 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Despite the media’s breast-beating and the periodic, usually self serving, protestations of political parties on the subject, the crimi...
Mon, Sep 27, 2004US polls and the apathy indexSubscriber Only
September 11, 2004 00:00 IST
In a special issue in the fall of the year 2000, Forbes magazine listed ten popular American expressions. They were: Get a life; Why not?; D...
Sat, Sep 11, 2004Desperately seeking ambiguitySubscriber Only
August 28, 2004 00:00 IST
Last week-end, an intensive two-day programme, consisting of play readings, a documentary, speeches and critiques, organised as a tribute to...
Sat, Aug 28, 2004Pretension as a mass phenomenonSubscriber Only
August 14, 2004 00:00 IST
How do you write a whopper of a bestseller? You take religion, controversy, art, puzzles, a boy, a girl, mysterious villains, glamorous loca...
Sat, Aug 14, 2004What’s love got to do with it?Subscriber Only
July 31, 2004 00:00 IST
So Jemima Goldsmith and Hugh Grant are an item. Or no, it’s more than that. Hugh is seriously involved with Jemima, the first time he h...
Sat, Jul 31, 2004Random acts of forgettingSubscriber Only
July 17, 2004 00:00 IST
It was called Pilla House though there was no tint of yellow anywhere in sight. The name was in actual fact a corrupted form of the English ...
Sat, Jul 17, 2004Hollywood is not Indian cultureSubscriber Only
July 05, 2004 00:00 IST
What is Indian history? What is Indian culture? Over the last few years these questions have been thrust to the forefront of public consciou...
Mon, Jul 05, 2004Denim, the new khadi?Subscriber Only
June 19, 2004 00:00 IST
In Mani Ratnam’s Yuva, four rough and tough guys in Marlborough gear strut into a legislative house as the camera pans over a sea of wh...
Sat, Jun 19, 2004Shock and remorseSubscriber Only
June 05, 2004 00:00 IST
We have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controv...
Sat, Jun 05, 2004The Congress reinvents itselfSubscriber Only
May 22, 2004 00:00 IST
It is a situation rich in irony. A prime minister to be sworn in by a president, both of separate minority communities under the benign gaze...
Sat, May 22, 2004Snapshots of sadistic insanitySubscriber Only
May 10, 2004 00:00 IST
Sometimes things take the most unexpected turn. The largest public demonstrations the western world has seen since the anti-nuclear movement...
Mon, May 10, 2004Call Mr Kailash, for a changeSubscriber Only
April 24, 2004 00:00 IST
The walls of the first class ladies compartment on the Mumbai local are usually decorated with lurid drawings of the female anatomy and scri...
Sat, Apr 24, 2004Journalism of Courage
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