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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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March 14, 2004 00:00 IST
In this silly season of soundbites and poll fights, I thought it fit to invite the BJP’s official motormouth, err...spokesman, to conne...
Sun, Mar 14, 2004Top of the pops in the Bovine Development IndexSubscriber Only
March 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Give the lady a break. Every since Uma Bharati came to power in Madhya Pradesh and promptly proceeded to give the state a “government w...
Tue, Mar 09, 2004Hema, Meena, Deeka…Subscriber Only
February 27, 2004 00:00 IST
Hema Malini, a long-time purveyor of dreams, does not have an opinion about the BJP’s core issues. Although she professes a liking for ...
Fri, Feb 27, 2004The bambini were meraviglioso!Subscriber Only
February 15, 2004 00:00 IST
10, Janpath, New Delhi Febbraio 14, 2004 Mamma mia, Mi scusi, please forgive me, for being tardi in writing to you, dearest Mamma, but tua ...
Sun, Feb 15, 2004Waiter, there’s a virus-cyrus in my soup!Subscriber Only
February 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Dining out has never got more exiting. The other day I happened to visit an upmarket restaurant in an upscale locality, so upmarket/upscale ...
Sun, Feb 01, 2004Vajpayee’s wordsplaySubscriber Only
January 30, 2004 00:00 IST
Political analysts looking back on the six years of NDA rule may be tempted to compare the styles of two Brahmin, non-Nehru/ Gandhi prime mi...
Fri, Jan 30, 2004Living with the ChandrasSubscriber Only
January 21, 2004 00:00 IST
It's happened yet again. A window suddenly opens to a seemingly normal household and what we witness causes us to shudder in horror. So immu...
Wed, Jan 21, 2004Here’s why BJP could win the next electionSubscriber Only
January 18, 2004 00:00 IST
The run-up to a general election is always a cruelly uncertain period for those who nurse ambitions to loot over (sorry, make that rule over...
Sun, Jan 18, 2004Coalition Cola: taste the thunderSubscriber Only
January 04, 2004 00:00 IST
I hadn't realised how serious our netas were about shopping for coalitions until yesterday, when both Sonia Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...
Sun, Jan 04, 2004Missing pieces in the jigsawSubscriber Only
December 26, 2003 00:00 IST
In the topsy-turvy universe of insurgency-scarred Jammu and Kashmir, the abnormal became the normal. So thoroughly had violence permeated li...
Fri, Dec 26, 2003Words and Whispers 2003Subscriber Only
December 21, 2003 00:00 IST
Every year throws up new words or old-new words. Like shells, they gleam and resonate on the sands of a dying year. Each word colourcodes th...
Sun, Dec 21, 2003Measure for measure: States vie to do betterSubscriber Only
December 18, 2003 00:00 IST
It is unlikely that the ancient philosopher who remarked ‘‘man is the measure of all things’’ had human development repo...
Thu, Dec 18, 2003Sing a song to Stree 2003Subscriber Only
December 07, 2003 00:00 IST
From the pink precincts of royal Jaipur, To the sun-dappled rocks of Jabalpur, From Gangaur, Bhilwara, Ujjain and Katni, To the forts, minar...
Sun, Dec 07, 2003In Elections, the Hee FactorSubscriber Only
December 07, 2003 00:00 IST
REPORTERS from the field in the recent elections speak of a new factor in Indian politics: the BSP, or bijli-sadak-pani, factor. Imagine the...
Sun, Dec 07, 2003We’re like this and that onlySubscriber Only
December 01, 2003 00:00 IST
It's strange to be going back to the idea of “national unity”, one of those school textbook formulations that we learnt by rote. S...
Mon, Dec 01, 2003Three fool-proof ways of cooking <i>ghoos</i>Subscriber Only
November 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Traditional definition of bribe (or ghoos, in Hindi): A sum of money or other reward offered or demanded in order to procure an (often illeg...
Sun, Nov 23, 2003A Looney Planet’s guide to Indo-Pak diplomacySubscriber Only
November 02, 2003 00:00 IST
The nations of the world would, no doubt, be in the throes of deep perplexity over the complexity of the Indo-Pak engagement. And who can bl...
Sun, Nov 02, 2003Sorry to be the party pooperSubscriber Only
October 29, 2003 00:00 IST
Elections are possibly the only moments in our democracy when the link between politics and people is re-established, however tenuously. A m...
Wed, Oct 29, 2003<i>Kyunki</i>, we may soon be a nation of cry babiesSubscriber Only
October 26, 2003 00:00 IST
It is a great deal worse than I had feared. The unprecedented and unbounded ability of Ekta Kapoor to capture not just the eyeballs but the ...
Sun, Oct 26, 2003Mamma, my kitchen’s on fire!Subscriber Only
October 12, 2003 00:00 IST
10, Janpath, Ottobre 10, 2003 Mamma mia! Mi scusi, mi scusi, mi scusi. Sorry, sorry, sorry, for not keeping in contacto. As usual, tua figli...
Sun, Oct 12, 2003Atally poetic thoughts from NYSubscriber Only
September 28, 2003 00:00 IST
For PMji, it’s always a wrench to leave New York, with its glass towers gilded with the dying glisten of the setting sun. All told, it ...
Sun, Sep 28, 2003After the last skySubscriber Only
September 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Edward said was already into the seventh year of his battle with leukaemia, when I interviewed him for this newspaper in December 1997. What...
Sat, Sep 27, 2003Justice, before we move onSubscriber Only
September 24, 2003 00:00 IST
Cancun conqueror, Union Law Minister Arun Jaitley, seized the moment with characteristic legal panache. Dismissing the charges made against ...
Wed, Sep 24, 2003Pentagon’s ‘Hit Hussein, Lambast Laden Plan’Subscriber Only
September 14, 2003 00:00 IST
This is for Your Eyes Only. Absolutely Top Secret stuff that has just come to me through my source at the Pentagon. US Secretary of Defence,...
Sun, Sep 14, 2003Ulta pulta tributes to Ulta PradeshSubscriber Only
August 31, 2003 00:00 IST
People tend to look down on Ulta Pradesh (UP). Look at its human development indices, they sneer, its mosquito-infested swamps, its run-down...
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