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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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It’s a humble plaint, your LordshipSubscriber Only
May 02, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 1: Your Lordship, may this humble plaintiff make this humble plaint that we cannot comprehend what your Lordship says. Inv...
Sun, May 02, 1999Making sense out of cynicismSubscriber Only
April 30, 1999 00:00 IST
Parliamentary debates may be exercises in boredom, but they help showcase the value systems of both political parties and politicians. In...
Fri, Apr 30, 1999Straight faceSubscriber Only
April 25, 1999 00:00 IST
Understanding politicsIf any of you happens to be confused about last week's political developments, let me try and clarify the present p...
Sun, Apr 25, 1999Straight Face — A mid-summer fantasySubscriber Only
April 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Today, you can fry an egg on Delhi's asphalt. The landscape in this city of a million intrigues suddenly resembles a Salvador Dali canvas...
Sun, Apr 18, 1999Minister at largeSubscriber Only
April 11, 1999 00:00 IST
If the government collapses -- please note, I'm not saying it will, there's many a slip between the lip and the list -- but if it collaps...
Sun, Apr 11, 1999Sex workers see no other optionSubscriber Only
April 05, 1999 00:00 IST
Kolhapur, April 4: Euphemistic expressions, patronising gestures and a facile moralising characterise the State's responses to prostituti...
Mon, Apr 05, 1999`Do you know the names they have for us? We aren’t human beings’Subscriber Only
April 03, 1999 00:00 IST
SANGLI, APRIL 2: Bando, with her gold chains and regal bearing, is like one of those dark, huge mango trees that dominates the stark Decc...
Sat, Apr 03, 1999Straight FaceSubscriber Only
March 28, 1999 00:00 IST
Hit-and-run at the RTOI had often wondered why Delhi motorists do so well in the hit-the-pedestrian sweepstakes. Last year, 2,123 people ...
Sun, Mar 28, 1999The teflon generationSubscriber Only
March 17, 1999 00:00 IST
There was a time when people spoke about `India' and `Bharat', ruing the fact that policy-makers and planners have not invested sufficien...
Wed, Mar 17, 1999Rock ‘n’ roll-backSubscriber Only
March 14, 1999 00:00 IST
As the BJP-led coalition government plans to make a great song and dance about its first anniversary in power, with Bollywood stars and c...
Sun, Mar 14, 1999The Alternative Cartoon NetworkSubscriber Only
March 07, 1999 00:00 IST
Now that they've gone and encrypted TNT's Cartoon Network, the escapades of Scooby Doo, Popeye and company, alas, come for a price. We ar...
Sun, Mar 07, 1999The old man who lives in his world of mistrustSubscriber Only
February 24, 1999 00:00 IST
Lahore, Feb 22: In his navy, pin-striped suit teamed with coordinated tie and cardigan, Amanullah Khan could pass quite easily for a reti...
Wed, Feb 24, 1999The old man who lives in his world of mistrustSubscriber Only
February 23, 1999 00:00 IST
Lahore, Feb 22: In his navy, pin-striped suit teamed with coordinated tie and cardigan, Amanullah Khan could pass quite easily for a reti...
Tue, Feb 23, 1999The symbol of PakistanSubscriber Only
February 22, 1999 00:00 IST
Shaken by the disturbances created by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Lahore on Saturday, the Pakistani authorities decided not to take any chance...
Mon, Feb 22, 1999Two Premiers give friendship a chanceSubscriber Only
February 22, 1999 00:00 IST
LAHORE, Feb 21: The most substantial gains of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Lahore seem to have been in the area of augm...
Mon, Feb 22, 1999Landings in LahoreSubscriber Only
February 21, 1999 00:00 IST
The Vajpayee-Sharif talks is the latest in a long series of high-level contacts between the two nations. In fact, 39 years ago Lahore had...
Sun, Feb 21, 1999PMs open border, break bread, raise hopesSubscriber Only
February 21, 1999 00:00 IST
WAGHA, Feb 20: Beyond a wired fence on one side was Hindustan. Beyond a wired fence on the other side was Pakistan. In the middle, there ...
Sun, Feb 21, 1999Lights, camera, for history in LahoreSubscriber Only
February 20, 1999 00:00 IST
LAHORE, FEB 19: If boarding the bus is symbolic of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's historic gesture to Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif is re...
Sat, Feb 20, 1999Love in the time of commerceSubscriber Only
February 14, 1999 00:00 IST
NOW that the world's best-known love story is winding down to the characteristic and-they-lived-happily-ever-after end, with the hero get...
Sun, Feb 14, 1999Sonia’s cricket fantasySubscriber Only
February 07, 1999 00:00 IST
10, Janpath, February 5,1999: Mamma mia, Mi scusi, really sorry, for this long silence. It's a price one pays for being the shadow prime ...
Sun, Feb 07, 1999A report on a journalistSubscriber Only
January 26, 1999 00:00 IST
It was bright and sunny, the day they cremated Shivani. Delhi's skies seemed to have forgotten their sullen winter ways, at least for a w...
Tue, Jan 26, 1999Oh what a lovely parade!Subscriber Only
January 24, 1999 00:00 IST
Doctors bury their blunders, but governments must parade them. Or that is what I have always believed. They must festoon their monumental...
Sun, Jan 24, 1999We, the peopleSubscriber Only
January 22, 1999 00:00 IST
It's the 2001 Face Odyssey. The fourteenth Indian census, one of the largest administrative exercises in the world, will soon begin to tr...
Fri, Jan 22, 1999A crash course in statusSubscriber Only
January 17, 1999 00:00 IST
Cars have always been more than a facility for human locomotion. They measure current status and future aspirations. They help negotiate ...
Sun, Jan 17, 1999It’s a matter of how minorities feel: NarimanSubscriber Only
January 15, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 13: There comes a time when people in prominent positions have to stand up and be counted. For eminent Supreme Court advoc...
Fri, Jan 15, 1999Journalism of Courage
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