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Ashok Malik
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Pause and MuteSubscriber Only
February 13, 2005 00:10 IST
Less than a fortnight before the Pakistani cricket team arrives in India, the BCCI is still wondering what will become of the all-important ...
Sun, Feb 13, 2005The truth about Godhra?Subscriber Only
February 01, 2005 00:34 IST
Tumhara khoon khoon, hamara khoon pani? — Sohrab Modi, playing the persecuted Jew in Bimal Roy’s Yahudi, 1958. This past Saturday...
Tue, Feb 01, 2005‘Talks will fail, then you learn lessons’Subscriber Only
January 19, 2005 02:13 IST
Stephen P Cohen, the United States’ premier South Asian strategic affairs analyst, is a mix of caution and optimism when assessing the ...
Wed, Jan 19, 2005The Life & Crimes of Saloth SarSubscriber Only
January 16, 2005 00:00 IST
Early in his biography of Pol Pot, Philip Short writes of the inadequacy of words such as ‘‘genocide’’. In the context o...
Sun, Jan 16, 2005Govt weighs options to rebuild AndamansSubscriber Only
January 14, 2005 01:54 IST
A week after it formally set up office in the premises of the National Institute of Disaster Management, the Home Ministry cell established ...
Fri, Jan 14, 2005Hail Mogambo!Subscriber Only
January 13, 2005 00:00 IST
Just so many of us must have begun Wednesday with our one Amrish Puri moment. The actor, who passed away on January 12 at age 72, was after ...
Thu, Jan 13, 2005Globalisation 3.0Subscriber Only
January 12, 2005 00:00 IST
Two weeks ago, amid the swirl of tsunami devastation, The Indian Express carried a piece pointing out apparent inconsistencies in BBC’s...
Wed, Jan 12, 2005Can CNN, BBC get away with this corpse show in ‘sensitive’ Manhattan?Subscriber Only
December 30, 2004 02:44 IST
Six months after 9/11, a CBS documentary on the attack on the Twin Towers censored visuals of a woman burning to death. ‘‘The imag...
Thu, Dec 30, 2004He will now confound the angelsSubscriber Only
December 24, 2004 01:28 IST
Winston Churchill once famously called Russia ‘‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’’. It is a sardonic thoug...
Fri, Dec 24, 2004The Thanedaar StateSubscriber Only
December 22, 2004 00:00 IST
As is now becoming clear, Delhi Police has bitten off much, much more than it can chew in arresting Avnish Bajaj, country manager of Baazee....
Wed, Dec 22, 2004This priestly turbulenceSubscriber Only
November 19, 2004 00:24 IST
Murder in the Cathedral meets Template of Doom. As soon as Jayendra Saraswati, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi, was arrested for alleged involv...
Fri, Nov 19, 2004Cricket’s restless pilgrimSubscriber Only
November 19, 2004 00:21 IST
Some lives evoke history, Trevor Chesterfield’s 69 years encapsulate geography. For a start, he’s a New Zealander who moved to Sri...
Fri, Nov 19, 2004Hindu Kush to Hindu BushSubscriber Only
November 11, 2004 00:00 IST
One week after George W. Bush won his famous victory, almost everybody in India has an assessment of why America voted the way it did. The f...
Thu, Nov 11, 2004For God, and GeorgeSubscriber Only
November 07, 2004 00:00 IST
He’s probably white, does an everyday blue-collar job and is pejoratively termed the redneck by lifelong critics. This week, the Quiet ...
Sun, Nov 07, 2004Nayudu to Saurav: Flannel VisionSubscriber Only
October 31, 2004 00:00 IST
Whatever else it may be, Indian cricket is also a series of immensely complicated and intriguingly complex conspiracy theories. Why, only th...
Sun, Oct 31, 2004BJP’s Generation ExSubscriber Only
October 27, 2004 00:00 IST
It is a biting coincidence. L.K. Advani has resumed charge as BJP president in the same fortnight as Mughal-e-Aazam, the black-and-white cla...
Wed, Oct 27, 2004Captain AmericaSubscriber Only
October 20, 2004 00:00 IST
Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.— Bar...
Wed, Oct 20, 2004Cricket’s court politicsSubscriber Only
October 12, 2004 00:00 IST
You didn’t have to be a member of the Jagmohan Dalmiya fan club to be utterly and unambiguously relieved. Monday’s Supreme Court n...
Tue, Oct 12, 2004Hooking the BouncerSubscriber Only
October 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Over the past week, political and legal reporters have written more cricket-related stories than the hapless sports correspondent. The crick...
Sun, Oct 03, 2004American SavarkariteSubscriber Only
October 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Some authors inspire pre-conceived notions. When you pick up a book by Huntington you’ve probably already made up your mind about wheth...
Sun, Oct 03, 2004Run out by Dalmiya, Pawar points out: bowler, umpire, 3rd umpire one & sameSubscriber Only
September 30, 2004 02:27 IST
A charismatic if controversial outgoing president backing his faceless deputy; a politically powerful challenger, supported by the Establish...
Thu, Sep 30, 2004State polls make Cong, NCP uneasy rivalsSubscriber Only
September 28, 2004 02:40 IST
With less than 48 hours to go for the election of the new BCCI president, the vicious deal-making is far from over. The Congress appears det...
Tue, Sep 28, 2004Sonia as Savarkarite HinduSubscriber Only
September 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Re-reading Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s Hindutva recently, one came across a passage that grapples with the definition of a Hindu. While ...
Mon, Sep 27, 2004To get Pawar out, Dalmiya bats with the CongressSubscriber Only
September 25, 2004 02:19 IST
The intrigue-ridden build-up to the BCCI presidential election of September 29 continues. It is now fairly clear that Arun Jaitley, BJP gene...
Sat, Sep 25, 2004Cricket board scraps tenders, Zee pads up against DalmiyaSubscriber Only
September 22, 2004 03:23 IST
Indian cricket’s two raging battles — for the telecast rights and for the BCCI presidency — formally merged today.When the BC...
Wed, Sep 22, 2004Journalism of Courage
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