The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
January 02, 1999 00:00 IST
If there is one thing in which Delhiites claim to score over Mumbai, it is in the number of holiday destinations that seem just an arm's ...
December 19, 1998 00:00 IST
I feel like I've known Dilip Kumar all my life. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if his name figured in the first few words I ever spoke. ...
December 05, 1998 00:00 IST
Mumbai is a concrete jungle. Right? There is pollution -- increasing every day -- crime and illness. If the mosquitoes don't kill you the...
November 21, 1998 00:00 IST
After a prolonged drought the gods seem to be smiling on Mumbai. I am not talking of the monsoon, though that too has been unusually munific...
November 07, 1998 00:00 IST
Are we drugged? Are we under a spell? Are we so fatalistic that we expect the Gods and the stars to determine our lives? Or is life such a b...
October 24, 1998 00:00 IST
Britain has its dole queues and America has its stockmarket suicides. But in India when we need a vivid reminder of the state of the econ...
October 10, 1998 00:00 IST
It is 11.35 am in the first class ladies compartment of a train headed into town. There are fifteen passengers seated around me. Three of...
September 26, 1998 00:00 IST
Swadeshi-videshi. The debate rages on and on. Much Coke has flowed under the bridge, and the big Mac has been tamed. Yet we haven't reach...
August 31, 1998 00:00 IST
It is an interesting analogy. After confessing to an improper relationship with a young woman, Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of suspec...
August 29, 1998 00:00 IST
1977: ``We roamed around Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg that night in a kind of community rejoicing, with groups breaking into dance and song in...
August 15, 1998 00:00 IST
About a year ago, a young activist was abducted and killed by terrorists in Assam. I hadn't met Sanjoy Ghose in over a decade. But it was...
August 01, 1998 00:00 IST
How should we treat icons? The success of Gandhi Virudh Gandhi -- a play on the Mahatma's troubled relationship with his son -- and the r...
July 18, 1998 00:00 IST
You caught a glimpse of him in Deewar, you saw him in Rangeela, there were shades of him in Yes Boss and now here he is again in Ghulam. ...
July 04, 1998 00:00 IST
IT was lying on the table at a friend's office in Chennai when I dropped in last week. I flipped through it idly while I waited for him to f...
June 19, 1998 00:00 IST
Life in a Mumbai chawl revolved around the common loo where residents would queue up with a `tumbril' in hand. ``Those were the days when we...
April 25, 1998 00:00 IST
When reports last came in, box office queues for the movie of the decade are still serpentine. Several weeks running and people are still fl...
April 11, 1998 00:00 IST
Who is the most important person in India today? The Prime Minister? The President? Shah Rukh Khan?Nope, nope and nope. The answer, in my hu...
March 23, 1998 00:00 IST
Some weeks ago during the launch break at a seminar on women and the media in Mumbai, coversation turned to the rapid commercialisation of e...
