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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 matter of how minorities feel: NarimanSubscriber Only
January 14, 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...
Thu, Jan 14, 1999Strictly for the birdbrainsSubscriber Only
January 10, 1999 00:00 IST
This is for the urgent attention of Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray. Every winter, little black Coots fly in from Pakistan in their white...
Sun, Jan 10, 1999Clinton’s Christmas carolsSubscriber Only
December 20, 1998 00:00 IST
It was just a week from Christmas. The carol singers had made their rounds, and the old Yuletide spirit reverberated in the festive air. ...
Sun, Dec 20, 1998No woman "asks for it"Subscriber Only
December 18, 1998 00:00 IST
The right to life. In Ambikapur, Priti Srivastava was denied it. Four young men in a jeep first drove over her tiffin carrier and then ov...
Fri, Dec 18, 1998Paying the women’s billSubscriber Only
December 13, 1998 00:00 IST
Behind his collected works of Sigmund Freud sat Rudhir Takar, eminent psychoanalyst and deft deconstructor of the ego and id.``Next patie...
Sun, Dec 13, 1998Quick quiz for CongressmenSubscriber Only
December 06, 1998 00:00 IST
The Congress politician has been so much a part of this country's political and social history, that it's almost with a sense of nostalgi...
Sun, Dec 06, 1998Politics in an image trapSubscriber Only
November 25, 1998 00:00 IST
Talking to the people in a democracy is tricky business. But never more so than in an election, that final arbiter of political destiny. Tod...
Wed, Nov 25, 1998Stardust in the eyesSubscriber Only
November 22, 1998 00:00 IST
When beggars die, there are no comets seen, the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of scientific reputations(with apologies to Shakesp...
Sun, Nov 22, 1998Cricket is music when they conquer fear, cross the sea of darknessSubscriber Only
November 22, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 21: When Sachin Tendulkar sports dark glasses, the kids on fashion street rush to buy a similar pair. When Sachin Tendulkar s...
Sun, Nov 22, 1998Subcontinental hot air driftSubscriber Only
November 15, 1998 00:00 IST
THE YEAR: 2048 ADTHE EVENT: Indo-Pak Composite DialogueTHE AGENDA: Tulbul Navigation Project & Wular Barrage/ Sir Creek Maritime Boundar...
Sun, Nov 15, 1998Even bumper crops land Punjab farmers in debtSubscriber Only
November 11, 1998 00:00 IST
CHANDIGARH, Nov 10: Stylish cars may be an obsession with city youth. But in rural Punjab fancy tractors work just as well.Nineteen-year-old...
Wed, Nov 11, 1998Tubewells thirst for water in PunjabSubscriber Only
November 10, 1998 00:00 IST
SANGRUR, Nov 9: ``This land and this water -- that's all I have.'' That's 54-year-old Kaur Singh's voluntary disclosure of wealth. His ravag...
Tue, Nov 10, 1998As debts swell and plots shrink, despair grows in Punjab’s farmsSubscriber Only
November 09, 1998 00:00 IST
AMRITSAR, NOV 8: Like a great documentary film on agriculture, Punjab unspools itself, scene by scene, as you drive down the Grand Trunk roa...
Mon, Nov 09, 1998Samata with MamataSubscriber Only
November 08, 1998 00:00 IST
George Fernandes, unrepentant swadeshi-ist and angry trade unionist, khadi-clad socialist and anti-Coca-Colaist, Laloo-baiter and China-hate...
Sun, Nov 08, 1998Onions on our breathSubscriber Only
November 02, 1998 00:00 IST
Never since the heady days of the freedom struggle has the country been as united as it is today. In those days, the unfurling of the tricol...
Mon, Nov 02, 1998Onions on our breathSubscriber Only
November 01, 1998 00:00 IST
Never since the heady days of the freedom struggle has the country been as united as it is today. In those days, the unfurling of the tricol...
Sun, Nov 01, 1998Brief history of the worldSubscriber Only
October 25, 1998 00:00 IST
The unholy ruckus that various state education ministers kicked up at the conference poor Murli Manohar Joshiji, hon'ble minister for Hum...
Sun, Oct 25, 1998Evolution of manSubscriber Only
October 11, 1998 00:00 IST
The long story of how the prehistoric simian evolved over time and varied geographical circumstance into that proud entity we now charact...
Sun, Oct 11, 1998A question of questionsSubscriber Only
October 04, 1998 00:00 IST
In these enigmatic times, asking questions is a bit like speaking into a deep well. All you come up with are more questions. In fact, the...
Sun, Oct 04, 1998Clash of civilisationsSubscriber Only
September 27, 1998 00:00 IST
What were you doing on the day when civilisation, as we know it, came to a grinding halt? I refer, of course, to last Sunday fortnight wh...
Sun, Sep 27, 1998Diplomatic breakthroughsSubscriber Only
September 13, 1998 00:00 IST
With Indian diplomacy now in battle mode, I wasn't entirely surprised to observe that our Second Foreign Minister (de facto), who is also...
Sun, Sep 13, 1998Lessons never learntSubscriber Only
September 04, 1998 00:00 IST
If a fraction of the extraordinary urgency that the government displayed in rushing through with the Prasar Bharati ordinance could have ...
Fri, Sep 04, 1998Curiouser and curiouserSubscriber Only
August 30, 1998 00:00 IST
Sometimes life seems a bit like taking a walk down the wild side -- on one's head. As accepted values are unceremoniously thrown out of t...
Sun, Aug 30, 1998History in the time of floodsSubscriber Only
August 29, 1998 00:00 IST
When the present is so tenuous it seems absurd to recall the past. As news of the Gorakhpur floods came in, with images of people struggl...
Sat, Aug 29, 1998Nation at the crosslinesSubscriber Only
August 16, 1998 00:00 IST
A Week before Independence Day, Union Telecom Minister Sushma Swaraj energised the nation by getting dial tones throughout the country to...
Sun, Aug 16, 1998
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