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Pamela Philipose
The writer is senior fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi, researching media issues express@expressindia.com
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Straight FaceSubscriber Only
September 12, 1999 00:00 IST
The eternal jam sessionShow me a traffic jam and I'll show you a city's character, the bone and sinew of the men and women who comprise i...
Sun, Sep 12, 1999The Vajpayee salespitchSubscriber Only
September 06, 1999 00:00 IST
General elections '99 has witnessed the comprehensive apotheosis of Atal Behari Vajpayee. In the 1998 elections, he was projected as the ...
Mon, Sep 06, 1999Straight FaceSubscriber Only
September 05, 1999 00:00 IST
Campaign carouselHave you noticed how good the opinion pollwallahs have become in pronouncing the winners of these elections even before ...
Sun, Sep 05, 1999Straight FaceSubscriber Only
August 29, 1999 00:00 IST
Back to the futureWhat I like about Indian politics is its transparency. So transparent is the process that you can look right through it...
Sun, Aug 29, 1999The Billion Plus blitzkriegSubscriber Only
August 24, 1999 00:00 IST
The image, once cranked up by the Films Division documentaries of yore, is once again upon us. Row upon row of crying cradles fading into...
Tue, Aug 24, 1999Straight FaceSubscriber Only
August 22, 1999 00:00 IST
A poem Vajpayee never wroteThere are times when I feel like Shah Rukh Khan,They've plastered my photographs all over town.In the NDA mani...
Sun, Aug 22, 1999Academic rot angers `Grand old man of Anthropology’Subscriber Only
August 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: The grand old man of Indian anthropology, Professor B K Roy Burman, has recently had occasion to observe the anthropol...
Sun, Aug 22, 1999Separated at birthSubscriber Only
August 15, 1999 00:00 IST
Somewhere in the ethereal reaches that lie between the Hindu Brahmalog and the Muslim Firdaus, the fathers of two nations two nations sep...
Sun, Aug 15, 1999Romance of the railwaysSubscriber Only
August 08, 1999 00:00 IST
In an earlier, more benign era, preparing for a rail journey meant, above all, packing the hold-all that sturdy piece of commodiousness, ...
Sun, Aug 08, 1999It’s my turn now, mamma!Subscriber Only
August 01, 1999 00:00 IST
10, JanpathJuly 30, 1999Mamma mia,Don't know where to cominciare, where to begin. Ho una sorpresa per lei, we have a surprise for you. Ma...
Sun, Aug 01, 1999Mimic men on the brinkSubscriber Only
July 26, 1999 00:00 IST
The Kargil confrontation was the first in human history in which two nuclear powers found themselves in an eyeball-to-eyeball military co...
Mon, Jul 26, 1999Sex life of the amoebaSubscriber Only
July 25, 1999 00:00 IST
Don't knock the Janata Dal. After all it is a political formation that has given this country more prime ministers than any other party, ...
Sun, Jul 25, 1999General in his labyrinthSubscriber Only
July 18, 1999 00:00 IST
The general was a poetic man but he wasn't feeling particularly rhapsodic now. Although the Kargil operations were petering out, he knew ...
Sun, Jul 18, 1999The bridge across the River YamneSubscriber Only
July 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Imagine a small community of tribals braiding together a 1000-ft suspension bridge of cane and bamboo in just a week. They do this withou...
Sun, Jul 18, 1999Straight faceSubscriber Only
July 11, 1999 00:00 IST
Being Sharif in LondonLast week was a particularly busy one for Mian Nawaz Sharif, prime minister of Pakistan, what with his trans-Atlant...
Sun, Jul 11, 1999Is it doomsday? You’ll know todaySubscriber Only
July 04, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 3: Nostradamus's prediction about the imminent end of the world scheduled to occur before Sunday is done may have sent th...
Sun, Jul 04, 1999Windbags, anonymousSubscriber Only
July 04, 1999 00:00 IST
A month ago, every Indian I knew or stumbled across was a cricket analyst who could also double up as the national selector of the Indian...
Sun, Jul 04, 1999Loose nukesSubscriber Only
June 27, 1999 00:00 IST
Have you noticed the nuclear-tipped verbiage that is crowding sub-continental air waves of late? Just nuke them, seems to be the fashion ...
Sun, Jun 27, 1999The flag of civilisationSubscriber Only
June 21, 1999 00:00 IST
War, or war-like peace, has many casualties. It destroys not just human life, but the most basic of human values. If we needed to be remi...
Mon, Jun 21, 1999Schooled for lifeSubscriber Only
June 20, 1999 00:00 IST
School is ten days away and I'm counting every passing second. All the necessary preparations for that much-anticipated peal of the morni...
Sun, Jun 20, 1999George goes off the airSubscriber Only
June 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Now look what they have gone and done. By issuing gag orders to our one and only Union Defence Minister, the inimitable George Fernandes,...
Sun, Jun 13, 1999Straight faceSubscriber Only
May 23, 1999 00:00 IST
Hum HindustaniWith three dismissals and one run out; the scenes outside 10, Janpath which resemble Eden Garden on a particularly hysteric...
Sun, May 23, 1999Yeh dil mange no moreSubscriber Only
May 16, 1999 00:00 IST
At the risk of being dunked in a cauldron of boiling oil, thrown to the vultures, hurled into hell fires, dropped into the Indian Ocean w...
Sun, May 16, 1999Straight faceSubscriber Only
May 09, 1999 00:00 IST
Glitzkrieg at Tamarind CourtShe's done it again. Bina Ramani, grande dame of the glitzkreig, purveyor of partytime, the hostess with the ...
Sun, May 09, 1999Doctored timesSubscriber Only
May 02, 1999 00:00 IST
Why is the Hippocratic Oath always misspelt, I have often wondered. Shouldn't it really be the Hypocritic Oath? I am told that graduates ...
Sun, May 02, 1999Journalism of Courage
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