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Amrita Shah
The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Pottermania and the end of magicSubscriber Only
July 03, 2003 00:00 IST
There is something suspiciously excessive about the fuss over Harry Potter. Serpentine queues! Blockbuster sales! And children spouting inan...
Thu, Jul 03, 2003Wanted: an Emily Post for todaySubscriber Only
June 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Last week I received a message on my e-mail. The kind that says the sender found a virus on his PC which could have been transmitted to you...
Thu, Jun 19, 2003The mafia has become mainstreamSubscriber Only
June 05, 2003 00:00 IST
For once I find myself in agreement with Mahesh Bhatt. Not that I can recall having much to disagree with him about—it is just that giv...
Thu, Jun 05, 2003A line for smug ’n’ empty timesSubscriber Only
May 22, 2003 00:00 IST
Two guys are playing chess. The doorbell rings. Two beautiful women stand at the door with full bottles of Pepsi. ‘‘Can we chill t...
Thu, May 22, 2003Coming to a small screen near youSubscriber Only
April 24, 2003 00:00 IST
There is no doubt about it, the big news of the future is news itself. Nowhere has this fact been more vividly conveyed than by recent event...
Thu, Apr 24, 2003Stoned on nostalgiaSubscriber Only
April 10, 2003 00:00 IST
So are you going to see the Rolling Stones?” It was no polite enquiry. The middle-aged gent from England who I ran into at a dinner par...
Thu, Apr 10, 2003Prime time warSubscriber Only
March 27, 2003 00:00 IST
We are living in strange times. In times when force has superseded reason, not in some remote, inaccessible part of the globe but in full v...
Thu, Mar 27, 2003If women ran the worldSubscriber Only
March 13, 2003 00:00 IST
With International Women’s Day just gone by and the world lurching towards a bruising conflict, it is sorely tempting to imagine an alt...
Thu, Mar 13, 2003Us, Them and the MediaSubscriber Only
February 27, 2003 00:00 IST
I have just returned from a trip to Gujarat, where amid much criticism of the media, particularly 24-hour news channels, I was asked, repeat...
Thu, Feb 27, 2003Debate, or the moral policeSubscriber Only
February 13, 2003 00:00 IST
It is almost Valentine’s Day but if you live in Mumbai, you could be excused for not remembering. In startling contrast to the hoopla o...
Thu, Feb 13, 2003Make people pay for warSubscriber Only
January 30, 2003 00:00 IST
It is a noble desire, no doubt, to wish freedom for every individual on earth. Freedom at least to decide how and by whom s/he should be gov...
Thu, Jan 30, 2003Reincarnating DepardieuSubscriber Only
January 16, 2003 00:00 IST
It was some time in the eighties. Late eighties. The scene was a crowded — very crowded — room at the Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. ...
Thu, Jan 16, 2003Welcome to the ketchup timesSubscriber Only
January 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Who says Indians can’t agree on anything? Earlier this week, a poll of Mumbai’s most popular disc jockeys found near unanimity on ...
Thu, Jan 02, 2003Understanding The RiotSubscriber Only
December 29, 2002 00:00 IST
At the very outset Takashi Shinoda, a professor of economics at Japan’s Daito Bunka university, admits to a substantial delay in the pu...
Sun, Dec 29, 2002How do we want to live?Subscriber Only
December 19, 2002 00:00 IST
It is difficult to escape it. Gujarat dominates the news. Narendra Modi’s overwhelming victory and the repeated predictions that the BJ...
Thu, Dec 19, 2002Marketed ‘hipness’ is dullSubscriber Only
December 05, 2002 00:00 IST
If I remember right it was Weekender that was behind all those ads about Attitude: a young man chucking up conventional jobs to take up prof...
Thu, Dec 05, 200210, 9, 8… Relaunch of Nuclear PowerSubscriber Only
December 01, 2002 00:00 IST
Atomic Power. It was the big story of the fifties. The phenomenon that promised to usher in an era of prosperity by providing an abundant an...
Sun, Dec 01, 2002You can’t bank on the futureSubscriber Only
November 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Last month I paid a visit to my bank. A common chore in the past but not as ordinary or as frequent an occurrence in these days of drop boxe...
Thu, Nov 21, 2002The brutalisation of a nationSubscriber Only
October 24, 2002 00:00 IST
October 16: Revenge attack, stray dogs beaten to death.October 17: Man sets woman ablaze in Ulhasnagar.October 17: Lynched while skinning d...
Thu, Oct 24, 2002Do we need another Indira?Subscriber Only
October 10, 2002 00:00 IST
In many ways we are a fickle nation. We make heroes and gods out of ordinary people and forget them with equal ease after they are gone. Pro...
Thu, Oct 10, 2002Take TV more seriouslySubscriber Only
September 26, 2002 00:00 IST
We make the most extravagant movies. And since liberalisation we have shown ourselves to be second to none in acquisitiveness. Yet we Indian...
Thu, Sep 26, 2002Media: divided against itselfSubscriber Only
September 12, 2002 00:00 IST
It was a horrible event no doubt. Unprecedented, startling, sad and portentous. Yet, after the initial dramatic shock of watching America...
Thu, Sep 12, 2002Talking futures: a horror storySubscriber Only
August 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Where are you? How often do you find yourself saying that these days? Quite often, I am willing to bet. For, with the wild proliferation of ...
Thu, Aug 29, 2002Starring, the mafiaSubscriber Only
August 15, 2002 00:00 IST
It is a story that just does not seem to go away. Despite murders, jail terms and unsavoury publicity, the nexus between Bollywood and the u...
Thu, Aug 15, 2002Once a ship, not always a shipSubscriber Only
August 01, 2002 00:00 IST
It seems reasonable to suppose that the most exciting travelling tales are likely to emerge from a land of diversity. A Greek tourist I once...
Thu, Aug 01, 2002Journalism of Courage
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