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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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Mon, Mar 15, 1999Budget plays the bluesSubscriber Only
March 01, 1999 00:00 IST
These comments are written at 3 pm on Saturday. All omissions, therefore, are regretted.The woman from Bangalore said: as far as I am con...
Mon, Mar 01, 1999The desi SupermanSubscriber Only
February 21, 1999 00:00 IST
This is the story of man and superman. Of double roles. Of the thin line which was supposed to separate fantasy from reality but which al...
Sun, Feb 21, 1999The horror, the horrorSubscriber Only
February 16, 1999 00:00 IST
The inert bodies of a few victims of the latest caste killings in Bihar lay in state; the young girl and boy who had been killed in Oriss...
Tue, Feb 16, 1999The horror, the horrorSubscriber Only
February 15, 1999 00:00 IST
The inert bodies of a few victims of the latest caste killings in Bihar lay in state; the young girl and boy who had been killed in Oriss...
Mon, Feb 15, 1999It’s in the balanceSubscriber Only
February 08, 1999 00:00 IST
Objectivity. The Minister of Information and Broadcasting said rather loftily that Prasar Bharati no longer requires autonomy because it ...
Mon, Feb 08, 1999The Man and the MinisterSubscriber Only
February 01, 1999 00:00 IST
Pramod Mahajan. He smiles broadly, enjoys being funny. Recently, both on and off the air, he has been exceptionally witty: about Rupert M...
Mon, Feb 01, 1999Get ShortySubscriber Only
January 25, 1999 00:00 IST
He, it, yaani ki Woh was in love. Sitting on a park bench without the park, he confesses his desire to marry the girl. She he-hees a girl...
Mon, Jan 25, 1999The Long and Skirt of itSubscriber Only
January 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Can success beget success is the proverbial hen and egg question. It's one Neena Gupta might like to ask herself. For two reasons. First,...
Mon, Jan 18, 1999All about 1999Subscriber Only
January 11, 1999 00:00 IST
Now that we have seen what we have seen in 1998, let's take a Doordarshan (or the long view) at what we might, will, see in 1999.Your chi...
Mon, Jan 11, 1999Who says it doesn’t pay?Subscriber Only
January 04, 1999 00:00 IST
Human life is ``nasty, short and brutish'', notwithstanding all efforts to civilise it. So the recent spate of murders and robberies in D...
Mon, Jan 04, 1999Nobel yes, but did you get it?Subscriber Only
December 14, 1998 00:00 IST
You decide. An Indian is being presented the Nobel Prize for Economics. The presentation will take, imprecisely, 90 seconds. It will invo...
Mon, Dec 14, 1998Making a poor exitSubscriber Only
December 07, 1998 00:00 IST
Exit Poll. You read right: exit poll. Quietly and without too much pillory. Why are we being so churlish? Simple: the exit poll was all w...
Mon, Dec 07, 1998It happened on TVSubscriber Only
November 30, 1998 00:00 IST
Dr. Death injects the bedridden man with a lethal drug. Man dies. Jack Kevorkian is arrested for murder. Crime and punishment. Over and out....
Mon, Nov 30, 1998Whose service is it, anyway?Subscriber Only
November 23, 1998 00:00 IST
Public service broadcasting in India is like last year's haute couture: it's going out of fashion. If you think this is simply a facetious, ...
Mon, Nov 23, 1998The TV Take-offSubscriber Only
November 02, 1998 00:00 IST
Television is able to celebrate the human capacity for heroism in a way no other medium can. Whether it was the lift-off of the space shuttl...
Mon, Nov 02, 1998Filmi Pirates & Music FundasSubscriber Only
October 26, 1998 00:00 IST
Of this we're sure: when perchance, the producers and distributors of the latest Hindi films tune into the local cable TV channels, then ...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998The Killing Screen?Subscriber Only
October 19, 1998 00:00 IST
Last Tuesday, a famous television director-cum-producer, Sanjeev Bhattacharya, died suddenly and tragically. Not that many people outside...
Mon, Oct 19, 1998When Sweetie met BillySubscriber Only
September 21, 1998 00:00 IST
The temptation has been irresistible; the provocation insupportable. When the President of the You-nighted States of America couldn't kee...
Mon, Sep 21, 1998Discovery is a great thingSubscriber Only
September 07, 1998 00:00 IST
Which do you think is more important? Or rather, which would you prefer to watch? President Clinton's hands pumping and pressing palms in...
Mon, Sep 07, 1998Thus spoke VajpayeeSubscriber Only
August 31, 1998 00:00 IST
Exactly one year ago, television deified death. Celebrity death. Violent, accidental, meaningless death. That was the day, Diana died.Pos...
Mon, Aug 31, 1998Poor darshanSubscriber Only
August 17, 1998 00:00 IST
First there was the President of the Republic. Followed by the Prime Minister of the country. Then the President again. To see and hear e...
Mon, Aug 17, 1998Frightful isn’t the word for itSubscriber Only
August 10, 1998 00:00 IST
Ingenuity is the mother of all television serials. Indian TV producers especially those with a weakness for crime, display more of it tha...
Mon, Aug 10, 1998Don’t kid yourselfSubscriber Only
July 27, 1998 00:00 IST
Asked what they liked doing, they replied: watching television; asked what they would like to do, they answered: why, watch more televisi...
Mon, Jul 27, 1998Good evening, the news…
July 20, 1998 00:00 IST
When the news makes news, it's usually for the wrong reasons. Last week, there was a two-day media seminar in memory of the late Nikhil C...
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