The writer is senior fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Delhi, researching media issues express@expressindia.com

May 02,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 1: Your Lordship, may this humble plaintiff make this humble plaint that we cannot comprehend what your Lordship says. Inv...
Sun, May 02, 1999
April 30,1999 00:00:00 AM
Parliamentary debates may be exercises in boredom, but they help showcase the value systems of both political parties and politicians. In...
Fri, Apr 30, 1999
April 25,1999 00:00:00 AM
Understanding politicsIf any of you happens to be confused about last week's political developments, let me try and clarify the present p...
Sun, Apr 25, 1999
April 18,1999 00:00:00 AM
Today, you can fry an egg on Delhi's asphalt. The landscape in this city of a million intrigues suddenly resembles a Salvador Dali canvas...
Sun, Apr 18, 1999
April 11,1999 00:00:00 AM
If the government collapses -- please note, I'm not saying it will, there's many a slip between the lip and the list -- but if it collaps...
Sun, Apr 11, 1999
April 05,1999 00:00:00 AM
Kolhapur, April 4: Euphemistic expressions, patronising gestures and a facile moralising characterise the State's responses to prostituti...
Mon, Apr 05, 1999
April 03,1999 00:00:00 AM
SANGLI, APRIL 2: Bando, with her gold chains and regal bearing, is like one of those dark, huge mango trees that dominates the stark Decc...
Sat, Apr 03, 1999
March 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
Hit-and-run at the RTOI had often wondered why Delhi motorists do so well in the hit-the-pedestrian sweepstakes. Last year, 2,123 people ...
Sun, Mar 28, 1999
March 17,1999 00:00:00 AM
There was a time when people spoke about `India' and `Bharat', ruing the fact that policy-makers and planners have not invested sufficien...
Wed, Mar 17, 1999
March 14,1999 00:00:00 AM
As the BJP-led coalition government plans to make a great song and dance about its first anniversary in power, with Bollywood stars and c...
Sun, Mar 14, 1999
March 07,1999 00:00:00 AM
Now that they've gone and encrypted TNT's Cartoon Network, the escapades of Scooby Doo, Popeye and company, alas, come for a price. We ar...
Sun, Mar 07, 1999
February 24,1999 00:00:00 AM
Lahore, Feb 22: In his navy, pin-striped suit teamed with coordinated tie and cardigan, Amanullah Khan could pass quite easily for a reti...
Wed, Feb 24, 1999
February 23,1999 00:00:00 AM
Lahore, Feb 22: In his navy, pin-striped suit teamed with coordinated tie and cardigan, Amanullah Khan could pass quite easily for a reti...
Tue, Feb 23, 1999
February 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
Shaken by the disturbances created by the Jamaat-e-Islami in Lahore on Saturday, the Pakistani authorities decided not to take any chance...
Mon, Feb 22, 1999
February 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
LAHORE, Feb 21: The most substantial gains of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Lahore seem to have been in the area of augm...
Mon, Feb 22, 1999
February 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
The Vajpayee-Sharif talks is the latest in a long series of high-level contacts between the two nations. In fact, 39 years ago Lahore had...
Sun, Feb 21, 1999
February 21,1999 00:00:00 AM
WAGHA, Feb 20: Beyond a wired fence on one side was Hindustan. Beyond a wired fence on the other side was Pakistan. In the middle, there ...
Sun, Feb 21, 1999
February 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
LAHORE, FEB 19: If boarding the bus is symbolic of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's historic gesture to Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif is re...
Sat, Feb 20, 1999
February 14,1999 00:00:00 AM
NOW that the world's best-known love story is winding down to the characteristic and-they-lived-happily-ever-after end, with the hero get...
Sun, Feb 14, 1999
February 07,1999 00:00:00 AM
10, Janpath, February 5,1999: Mamma mia, Mi scusi, really sorry, for this long silence. It's a price one pays for being the shadow prime ...
Sun, Feb 07, 1999
January 26,1999 00:00:00 AM
It was bright and sunny, the day they cremated Shivani. Delhi's skies seemed to have forgotten their sullen winter ways, at least for a w...
Tue, Jan 26, 1999
January 24,1999 00:00:00 AM
Doctors bury their blunders, but governments must parade them. Or that is what I have always believed. They must festoon their monumental...
Sun, Jan 24, 1999
January 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
It's the 2001 Face Odyssey. The fourteenth Indian census, one of the largest administrative exercises in the world, will soon begin to tr...
Fri, Jan 22, 1999
January 17,1999 00:00:00 AM
Cars have always been more than a facility for human locomotion. They measure current status and future aspirations. They help negotiate ...
Sun, Jan 17, 1999
January 15,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JAN 13: There comes a time when people in prominent positions have to stand up and be counted. For eminent Supreme Court advoc...
Fri, Jan 15, 1999


