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Amrita Shah
The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
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Call Mr Kailash, for a changeSubscriber Only
April 24,2004 00:00:00 AM
The walls of the first class ladies compartment on the Mumbai local are usually decorated with lurid drawings of the female anatomy and scri...
Sat, Apr 24, 2004The many colours of truthSubscriber Only
April 10,2004 00:00:00 AM
What happened in December 1992 should never have happened. It hurt me tremendously...L. K. Advani is reported to have said this to BBC’...
Sat, Apr 10, 2004Dead Sea ScrollsSubscriber Only
April 04,2004 00:00:00 AM
KHUSHWANT Singh has a more interesting resume than most people alive in the country today. One of the early writers of Indian fiction in Eng...
Sun, Apr 04, 2004Political endingsSubscriber Only
March 25,2004 00:00:00 AM
Remember the refrain: “Why don’t good people join politics?” It was one of those statements that popped up in ordinary conver...
Thu, Mar 25, 2004For a life of her ownSubscriber Only
March 11,2004 00:00:00 AM
I met her on a late evening bus from Pune. She was in her early twenties, small built and delicate, with the look of someone who had grown u...
Thu, Mar 11, 2004Why India Inc won’t put up a fightSubscriber Only
February 26,2004 00:00:00 AM
A deaf ear is the best response to censure. This, at least, appears to be the logic behind Murli Manohar Joshi’s silently determined ca...
Thu, Feb 26, 2004The Conscience IndustrySubscriber Only
February 14,2004 00:00:00 AM
Anti-Globalisation’’, ‘‘Bush hater’’, ‘‘anti-business’’, ‘‘idealists’’...
Sat, Feb 14, 2004The end of imaginationSubscriber Only
February 12,2004 00:00:00 AM
I don't get it. I mean all this breast, sorry, chest beating over Justin Timberlake ripping off Janet Jackson’s shirt on stage. A Tenne...
Thu, Feb 12, 2004Same time, 54 years agoSubscriber Only
January 29,2004 00:00:00 AM
All Delhi was agog or so reports of January 26, 1950, would have us believe. In the early morning, prabhat pheris toured various localities ...
Thu, Jan 29, 2004Goan sand under the skinSubscriber Only
January 15,2004 00:00:00 AM
Not possible, said the travel agent. Train? Plane? Boat? The answer was the same. All routes to Goa were full. Full to choking. What makes G...
Thu, Jan 15, 2004Ring in a new laughterSubscriber Only
January 01,2004 00:00:00 AM
The first day of the new year is a time for optimism. Time to practice getting the date right. Remarking on how 2004 is upon us before one e...
Thu, Jan 01, 2004Statecraft of the vanitiesSubscriber Only
December 18,2003 00:00:00 AM
NTR, Amitabh Bachchan, Jayalalithaa, Shabana Azmi, Vinod Khanna, Hema Malini — okay, so now it’s a well established fact that film...
Thu, Dec 18, 2003Let’s map Mumbai’s villagesSubscriber Only
December 04,2003 00:00:00 AM
THE road is big in America. Fast cars, freeways, motels are all an intrinsic part of American folklore. Yet some years ago at a seminar on u...
Thu, Dec 04, 2003The curse of the K womenSubscriber Only
November 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
When the power goes out in a city and the women come out for some air these days the talk soon turns to the neighbourhood’s young marri...
Fri, Nov 28, 2003Fragments in the darkSubscriber Only
November 20,2003 00:00:00 AM
One is often told that we live in an increasingly fragmented world. The truth of it comes to you quite vividly when you are watching a play ...
Thu, Nov 20, 2003That anywhere feelingSubscriber Only
November 06,2003 00:00:00 AM
In its last issue, the newsmagazine The Week, carried an extended desi travelogue: an account of ‘‘ten fun cities for the travelin...
Thu, Nov 06, 2003Colours of ClosureSubscriber Only
November 02,2003 00:00:00 AM
It is not an uncommon sight. Five men squatting on the road, paint boxes and a bag of carpenter’s tools between them. There are places,...
Sun, Nov 02, 2003‘Vibrant’ Gujarat does EnglishSubscriber Only
October 09,2003 00:00:00 AM
Former Gujarat chief minister, Keshubhai Patel, had to learn English in order to make himself more effective in selling investment opportuni...
Thu, Oct 09, 2003Mid-way to Jogger’s ParkSubscriber Only
September 25,2003 00:00:00 AM
These days the big news in the entertainment industry is Bollywood’s changing profile. The cause for excitement is mainly the apparent ...
Thu, Sep 25, 2003The new iron maiden’s hereSubscriber Only
September 11,2003 00:00:00 AM
The SEX report: An exclusive opinion poll on the intimate desires of the Indian woman.’’ With its latest cover, India Today appear...
Thu, Sep 11, 2003It doesn’t seem to careSubscriber Only
August 28,2003 00:00:00 AM
Who are the people who died in Monday’s bomb blasts in Mumbai? When you see visuals of the empty, blood-splattered area abutting the Ga...
Thu, Aug 28, 2003A heroine for our timesSubscriber Only
August 14,2003 00:00:00 AM
This week one of the movie channels on television screened the Reese Witherspoon hit, Legally Blonde. Those who’ve seen the film would ...
Thu, Aug 14, 2003Riding the storm, reacting laterSubscriber Only
July 31,2003 00:00:00 AM
A few weeks ago, former police officer Julio Ribeiro — speaking at a book release function in Mumbai — talked of a certain strateg...
Thu, Jul 31, 2003The Milky WaySubscriber Only
July 27,2003 00:00:00 AM
How many cows does it take to make a hundred litres of milk? How many children could you feed with a hundred litres of milk? These are the q...
Sun, Jul 27, 2003Fashion for the I-don’t-care ageSubscriber Only
July 17,2003 00:00:00 AM
So the Indian government has decided against sending troops to Iraq. A major decision and one of far-reaching impact perhaps in terms of for...
Thu, Jul 17, 2003Journalism of Courage
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