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Shailaja Bajpai
Shailaja Bajpai has been writing about television since 1984. "Far too long," in her own words. But she has also watched it change, grow, grow and grow into what is today... the elephant in the room and any conversation on any subject. In her case, it would be true to say that you have to pay her to watch television!
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The majority reportSubscriber Only
December 23, 2002 00:00 IST
People constantly criticise the media for ignoring Hindu sentiment, Hindu culture or of being virulently anti-Hindu. That’s untrue. Th...
Mon, Dec 23, 2002The medium and Modi’s messageSubscriber Only
December 16, 2002 00:00 IST
Thank God it’s Monday. The battle has been lost and won. Now, let’s move on from the G strings (Godhra, Gujarat) to other letters ...
Mon, Dec 16, 2002On TV: Spot the Kids contestSubscriber Only
December 09, 2002 00:00 IST
December 8 was International Children’s Day of Broadcasting (ICDB). Ho-hum. One of those annual, symbolic, commemorative occasions whic...
Mon, Dec 09, 2002Indians out of the closetSubscriber Only
November 25, 2002 00:00 IST
Indians are known to be enterprising, but daring? Two foreign shows thought so. Last week’s Who Dares Wins - India Special (AXN), had A...
Mon, Nov 25, 2002The VHP HardsellSubscriber Only
November 18, 2002 00:00 IST
William Gates presence filled the screen, till Pravin Togadia elbowed him out. During every crisis involving VHP — on an average there&...
Mon, Nov 18, 2002Tendulkar and TV, like bat and ballSubscriber Only
November 11, 2002 00:00 IST
It's difficult, nay impossible to dislike him. Whether he is selling you biscuits, soft drinks or a scooter, whether he square-drives, paddl...
Mon, Nov 11, 2002Tickled to boredomSubscriber Only
November 04, 2002 00:00 IST
Have you ever considered the utility of TV’s canned laughter? How it presumes you will laugh because it laughs? How the harder it laugh...
Mon, Nov 04, 2002Gee, how’re you feeling?Subscriber Only
October 28, 2002 00:00 IST
Television news is waxing spiritual. We have seen live coverage of Ganesh Chaturti, Dussehra in Delhi with Vajpayee slinging arrows and now ...
Mon, Oct 28, 2002<i>Chitrahaar</i> in spandexSubscriber Only
October 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Nowadays, you must disbelieve the evidence of eyes or ears. Ten days ago Congressman Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP’s M Beig were cheek to jo...
Mon, Oct 21, 2002Elections, made for TVSubscriber Only
October 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Elections results and television are like dal-chawal. Or shoes and socks. One without the other is incomplete. Thus, vote counting for the J...
Mon, Oct 14, 2002Private love public on TVSubscriber Only
October 07, 2002 00:00 IST
Where would you find a man and two sisters talking about their triangular live-in relationship? On Jerry Springer — right? — the A...
Mon, Oct 07, 2002Beastly tales from this TV serial and that oneSubscriber Only
September 30, 2002 00:00 IST
It’s like this beta, call in PETA. Let the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals investigate the gratuitous poisoning of pets. Fi...
Mon, Sep 30, 2002Ruby Bhatia’s silly pointsSubscriber Only
September 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Is it possible that media coverage, both domestic and international, is helping to keep the Jammu and Kashmir elections more honest?On the f...
Mon, Sep 23, 2002September 11 and our September 9Subscriber Only
September 16, 2002 00:00 IST
Osama Bin Laden dropped by 9/11, words flowing like his beard and gown. Somewhere during his last year in hiding, he has acquired a decided ...
Mon, Sep 16, 2002Tuning the picture, adjusting the contrastSubscriber Only
September 09, 2002 00:00 IST
There are reports that the government is about to issue media directives on the coverage of the Kashmir polls. Last Wednesday, Doordarshan, ...
Mon, Sep 09, 2002Tabloid TV?Subscriber Only
September 02, 2002 00:00 IST
Some things can but never do. Change. Take the producers of Krishi Darshan, Doordarshan’s gift to India’s ‘‘kissan bhai&...
Mon, Sep 02, 2002Seeing is believingSubscriber Only
August 26, 2002 00:00 IST
You cannot afford to blink, these days, lest you miss something on television. Blink once and CNN produces its Tapes on Terror from Afghanis...
Mon, Aug 26, 2002More than meets the eyeSubscriber Only
August 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Last week began very differently from the previous one but ended in much the same vein. On Monday, we accompanied President Kalam to Gujarat...
Mon, Aug 19, 2002A week is a long time in politics and TVSubscriber Only
August 12, 2002 00:00 IST
A week which protested too much. It began with Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Ram Naik protesting his innocence in the Petrol Pump Scam ...
Mon, Aug 12, 2002Simply Madhuri?Subscriber Only
August 05, 2002 00:00 IST
ONE does everything to make you smile, the other sails on the boat of her lips. Last week, they descended upon television, the first from a ...
Mon, Aug 05, 2002He grows on you, rather like hairSubscriber Only
July 29, 2002 00:00 IST
This week’s column is a series of moments, culled from a bouquets of channels. See a person often enough and he grows on you. Rather li...
Mon, Jul 29, 2002Sidhu Strikes Out?Subscriber Only
July 22, 2002 00:00 IST
SHOULD the services of Navjot Singh Sidhu be retained until next year’s cricket World Cup? Is the smart, suave, irrepressible and incre...
Mon, Jul 22, 2002Family soap lathers bestSubscriber Only
July 15, 2002 00:00 IST
We the People need to seriously contemplate our navels. Consider our choices. Oh-ho, you’ll complain, here she goes again. Scolding and...
Mon, Jul 15, 2002Lesser halves on the tubeSubscriber Only
July 09, 2002 00:00 IST
Success is rather rebellious. It disdains conventions (pooh-pooh), creates its own rules and is governed by them alone. On July 3, 2002 Kyun...
Tue, Jul 09, 2002‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God’Subscriber Only
July 01, 2002 00:00 IST
A terrible beauty is mourned: he falls, swooping down from a great height. Like a falcon with broken wings, he hits the ground ‘‘...
Mon, Jul 01, 2002Journalism of Courage
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