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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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The search for language to express the horror of Gujarat is on. Recent events in that state have been variously described as ‘riots...
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(With apologies to Mary Shelley, author of the famed classic, ‘Frankenstein’) This is a dark tale of how a scientist called Dr Nar...
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January 31, 2001 00:00 IST
It was a smile that broke through the rubble. Held up by her rescuers aftertwo days under the debris of the earthquake, there was joy on t...
Wed, Jan 31, 2001The shrinking mindscapeSubscriber Only
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If television is the great mirror reflecting the preoccupations of a nation, then the fare dished out over the last 366 days should give r...
Mon, Jan 01, 2001Ayodhya is no freedom struggleSubscriber Only
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Words in a politician's mouth are like chewing gum. You can shape them anyway you want. You can even blow bubbles out of them. Eight years...
Wed, Dec 06, 2000Women, interruptedSubscriber Only
November 27, 2000 00:00 IST
If people are a country's greatest asset, their physical well-being shouldlogically be a more eloquent indicator of national progress than...
Mon, Nov 27, 2000Men who made war, speak peaceSubscriber Only
November 15, 2000 00:00 IST
AS his bus crossed Jalandhar, retired Pakistani Lieutenant General NassirAkhtar looked out of the window and remembered his ancestral vill...
Wed, Nov 15, 2000Forgotten and damnedSubscriber Only
November 01, 2000 00:00 IST
Displacement is an ugly word. Rehabilitation, in contrast, has a nice, euphemistic ring to it. While we wouldn't want to ``displace'' peop...
Wed, Nov 01, 2000Sisters under the skinSubscriber Only
October 09, 2000 00:00 IST
``No one has the right to hold the government at gunpoint. She will have to go.'' Who said this about whom? And when? It's one of the more...
Mon, Oct 09, 2000A paddy grain in the mouth of an infantSubscriber Only
October 04, 2000 00:00 IST
Census 2001 is expected to answer many intriguing queries about who we, as a people, are. Undoubtedly, one of the more significant among t...
Wed, Oct 04, 2000`Information is as volatile an issue as land’Subscriber Only
September 14, 2000 00:00 IST
The phone rings incessantly. Aruna Roy is quickly realising that with the Magsaysay Award comes instant celebritydom, especially in a city...
Thu, Sep 14, 2000Polyphony in the airSubscriber Only
August 14, 2000 00:00 IST
Okay, this is a question that figured in Kaun Banega Crorepati? recently. Which train passes through the largest number of states in the c...
Mon, Aug 14, 2000For better, not worseSubscriber Only
July 07, 2000 00:00 IST
According to a recent estimate, the births of some 10 million children of the estimated 25 million born in India each year remain unregist...
Fri, Jul 07, 2000Yes, Prime Minister, nappy timeSubscriber Only
June 04, 2000 00:00 IST
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As the monsoon takes shape in that great laboratory of the Indian Ocean, this is as good a time as any to look at a summer when the domina...
Wed, May 24, 2000Change in the airSubscriber Only
April 19, 2000 00:00 IST
Pathan Shamim is a taxi driver and thinks nothing of driving for 17 hours ata stretch. She is 30-year-old divorcee, wears her hair in a pl...
Wed, Apr 19, 2000Curtained lives and stifled voicesSubscriber Only
April 18, 2000 00:00 IST
The purdah works both ways. It locks lives in, it locks lives out. Muslimwomen are truly the twice-forgotten, the minority within the mino...
Tue, Apr 18, 2000Scenes from the street — A script for young voicesSubscriber Only
March 31, 2000 00:00 IST
What happens when people, ordinary people, good, kind people, people who do not intentionally hurt others, lose the capacity to see childr...
Fri, Mar 31, 2000Scenes from the street — A script for young voicesSubscriber Only
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Thu, Mar 30, 2000Scenes from the street — A script for young voicesSubscriber Only
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Wed, Mar 29, 2000Last man, turn off the tapSubscriber Only
March 27, 2000 00:00 IST
Access to water was, and is, central to the perpetuation of castehierarchies through rituals governing purity and pollution. The well in a...
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