Mini Kapoor is Contributing Editor at The Indian Express
July 21, 2000 00:00 IST
Prescient words. In fact, amend that to audacious words. For a writer struggling to publish her first book detailing an as yet unimagined ...
April 18, 2000 00:00 IST
Imagine this. A debutant Can-adian novelist, a self-professed loner at theUniversity of Montreal quietly translating works on art, is acco...
April 10, 2000 00:00 IST
Not long ago, in one of those routine exercises to redefine national identity that inhabitants of London's 10 Downing Street feel so compe...
February 02, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 1: Make way for Mohsin Hamid. This 28-year-old Pakistani writer has successfully jostled for space among subcontinenta...
January 01, 2000 00:00 IST
DECEMBER 31: "(The world) is asking a dreadful question that is more talked about in private conversation than discussed in print and...
Into the naughtiesNow that we can finally declare an end to millennial madness, there is just one lexical Y2K problem to be cleared away a...
December 23, 1999 00:00 IST
It is a heartening postcard from the far-flung peripheries of the human imagination. And it has come none too soon. Amidst fin de millenni...
October 31, 1999 00:00 IST
It was mind without fear, a head held highWhere the mind is without fear and the head is held high;Where knowledge is free;Where the worl...
September 10, 1999 00:00 IST
Perhaps life does imitate art. Yet in doing so, it spotlights for us the forever turning kaleidoscope of human responses of optimism and ...
June 16, 1999 00:00 IST
Now that the subcontinent is a nuclear neighbourhood, a suddenly alarmed world is keenly desirous of a ready primer to the Kashmir flashp...
June 02, 1999 00:00 IST
All is not quite well in our brave new world. In a week when scientists finally rectified a gender bias by cloning the first male mammal ...
May 11, 1999 00:00 IST
There is something distinctly heroic about a 15-year-old Nepali boy's decision last week to abandon his final bid to become the youngest ...
May 03, 1999 00:00 IST
Every protest, especially against new technology, needs a horrifying vision of doomsday. A reinvention of an earlier nightmare, as it wer...
February 16, 1999 00:00 IST
The last fortnight has been hopelessly bewildering for the rare follower of both sport and politics. Over in England national football co...
February 15, 1999 00:00 IST
January 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Hark back a few years to prevailing notions about the approaching millennium. Cyberia was still a distant empire but the inexorable progr...
January 01, 1999 00:00 IST
Be warned, the scourge of 1999, millennial madness, is upon us and it is highly contagious. Indeed, as 1998 ticked away, the symptoms wer...
Mini Kapoor is Contributing Editor at The Indian Express Mini Kapoor is Contributing Editor at The Indian Express 
