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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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Dream on, for the futureSubscriber Only
August 27, 2003 00:00 IST
Words slide, slip, perish, decay with imprecision, but some continue to assail the amnesia of time. Among the famous words of the last centu...
Wed, Aug 27, 2003<i>Dilli door ast</i>: 7 feet under water, that is!Subscriber Only
August 03, 2003 00:00 IST
For some reason Delhi suddenly thinks it is Cherrapunjee, the wettest spot on earth. There has been more rain over the last month than all t...
Sun, Aug 03, 2003The Noor EffectSubscriber Only
July 30, 2003 00:00 IST
In symbolic terms, there is little to match this story. A two-year-old girl child in dire need of heart surgery rides the first bus after th...
Wed, Jul 30, 2003Tony and the CoalitionSubscriber Only
July 20, 2003 00:00 IST
The hottest day of summer so far was drawing to a close. Tony Blair, prime minister of United Kingdom, a trim fiftyish, salt-and-pepper-hair...
Sun, Jul 20, 2003Bhoot, now playing in the neighbourhoodSubscriber Only
July 06, 2003 00:00 IST
I don't know if you’ve seen the hottest and scariest film among a whole crop of Bollywood spookies released this summer. Well, I have. ...
Sun, Jul 06, 2003Ayodhya chip, Advani shoulderSubscriber Only
June 26, 2003 00:00 IST
For over 10 years, Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani has lugged the ghost of a demolished mosque with him, much like Coleridge’s ancien...
Thu, Jun 26, 2003Power Purush poetrySubscriber Only
June 22, 2003 00:00 IST
There is nothing quite like poetry to dissipate tension and while everybody knows that Vikas Purush is a poet of some eminence, there is muc...
Sun, Jun 22, 2003Kyunki Sars is a lesson for us tooSubscriber Only
June 10, 2003 00:00 IST
Complacency is especially unhealthy when it involves healthcare. There’s this feeling at the highest levels of government—partly i...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003The amazing word swallowerSubscriber Only
June 08, 2003 00:00 IST
The hallmark of a great politician is a certain ability to eat, chew, devour, gulp, swallow, his/her words without — and this is most i...
Sun, Jun 08, 2003Notes from the UndergroundSubscriber Only
May 25, 2003 00:00 IST
In case you have forgotten, let me remind you of a significant underground activity that has been going on all this while. Even as the Iraq...
Sun, May 25, 2003Women, in a broken mirrorSubscriber Only
May 23, 2003 00:00 IST
Join the dots. A baby girl gets abandoned in a hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Karimnagar as her parents attempt to swap her for someone e...
Fri, May 23, 2003Want Indo-Pak peace?Subscriber Only
May 11, 2003 00:00 IST
One never knows how peace breaks out, or rather how peace talks break out, on the subcontinent. It is as mysterious a phenomenon as the mons...
Sun, May 11, 2003A goodbye to Gaya RamSubscriber Only
April 27, 2003 00:00 IST
I don't like this one bit. This proposal to end a time-honoured and widely-respected practice that has given our nation some of its most exc...
Sun, Apr 27, 2003More news is good nooseSubscriber Only
April 13, 2003 00:00 IST
You may have noticed that news is making news now, what with 24-hour news channels proliferating faster than rabbits do under optimum rabbit...
Sun, Apr 13, 2003Real death in a primetime warSubscriber Only
April 11, 2003 00:00 IST
They finally decapitated Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on Wednesday evening, as he stood six metres tall, cast in metal and mounted on marble, i...
Fri, Apr 11, 2003Operation Aw ShucksSubscriber Only
March 30, 2003 00:00 IST
For weeks I had wanted to know just who was responsible for advising George W. Bush on unleashing a monstrous war on Iraq. Whose vinegar-soa...
Sun, Mar 30, 2003Four funerals and a warningSubscriber Only
March 21, 2003 00:00 IST
With the first cruise missiles lighting up Baghdad’s skies before the sun could do so, human civilisation has taken a giant leap backwa...
Fri, Mar 21, 2003Middle of the HuddleSubscriber Only
March 16, 2003 00:00 IST
The big, I mean the gargantuan, question that’s engaging the nation at the moment is not this one: When will USA start attacking Iraq? ...
Sun, Mar 16, 2003Who needs law when there’s Pota?Subscriber Only
March 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Time, as the philosopher said, is the best interpreter of every doubtful law. Last March, the NDA government decided to make life safer for ...
Fri, Mar 14, 2003Attagirl, Condi, bomb himSubscriber Only
March 02, 2003 00:00 IST
Oval Office: George Dubya Bush, President of the United States and Condoleezza Rice, his National Security Advisor.BUSH: Come in Condi! Anyt...
Sun, Mar 02, 2003Indo-Pak yak, yakSubscriber Only
February 16, 2003 00:00 IST
It gives me great pleasure to report that the deep, almost unfathomable, diplomatic ties between South Asia’s two largest nations are t...
Sun, Feb 16, 2003Borders in the mindSubscriber Only
February 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Nobody quite knows what became of those 213 people, with their dented aluminum utensils, plastic buckets, babies wrapped up in rags, wailing...
Wed, Feb 12, 2003Great Indian Road TrickSubscriber Only
February 02, 2003 00:00 IST
As residents of the Capital, we have our privileges. For instance, we get to see Republic Day parades — mostly on TV like everyone else...
Sun, Feb 02, 2003A very happy birthday, BMWSubscriber Only
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
I don't understand this great fuss being made over Mayawati’s birthday celebrations. There are some incurable Wets around who keep whin...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003Voice from Little IndiaSubscriber Only
January 13, 2003 00:00 IST
‘Little India’ is an appellation attached to variegated corners on earth which, like giant footprints, record the voyages of the I...
Mon, Jan 13, 2003Journalism of Courage
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