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Pratik Kanjilal
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Between illusion and realitySubscriber Only
May 31,1999 00:00:00 AM
So it transpires that while our prime minister and their prime minister were breaking bread together and expressing pious intentions, the...
Mon, May 31, 1999PC for personal careSubscriber Only
November 09,1998 00:00:00 AM
The failure of Western civilisation is often read in its unwillingness to look after the elderly. Grandpa's started drooling at the breakfas...
Mon, Nov 09, 1998The world gets noisierSubscriber Only
October 26,1998 00:00:00 AM
Early next month, the world will become a slightly smaller place. The Iridium network of 66 comsats will be powered up, giving satellite ...
Mon, Oct 26, 1998Lessons from LewinskySubscriber Only
September 28,1998 00:00:00 AM
When the Starr report went online, the US government went offline. Millions of people from all over the world were logjamming the US gove...
Mon, Sep 28, 1998Akira Kurosawa is alive and wellSubscriber Only
September 08,1998 00:00:00 AM
It is difficult to believe that Akira Kurosawa is dead when there is so much evidence that he will be around for ever. For Indian film bu...
Tue, Sep 08, 1998The need for speedSubscriber Only
August 31,1998 00:00:00 AM
The story so far: you boot up your machine, dial about 35 times to connect to the Internet, surf at the niggardly speeds that the Indian ...
Mon, Aug 31, 1998At war with ChinaSubscriber Only
August 17,1998 00:00:00 AM
A few weeks from now, for the first time ever, a man will go on trial for political activities on the Internet. For a crime against the s...
Mon, Aug 17, 1998China’s shining scalpelSubscriber Only
August 16,1998 00:00:00 AM
When China made it to the front pages of the newspapers, it used to be in the shape of Comrades Mao and Deng. Or there would be pictures ...
Sun, Aug 16, 1998Age of the voyeursSubscriber Only
August 03,1998 00:00:00 AM
A fortnight ago, there was Ourfirsttime.com, about two people losing their virginity on the Internet. Last week, a leak was sprung about ...
Mon, Aug 03, 1998Wiring the villagesSubscriber Only
July 22,1998 00:00:00 AM
When the action plan of the National Task Force on Information Technology came out, the digerati's first reaction was one of jaded fatali...
Wed, Jul 22, 1998Twilight of the borgsSubscriber Only
July 20,1998 00:00:00 AM
A month ago, it was a live birth on the Internet. Now, it's live sex and public loss of virginity. Strange happenings, for cybercitizens ...
Mon, Jul 20, 1998The past is a dead endSubscriber Only
July 08,1998 00:00:00 AM
In a rare departure from usual practice, on July 2, NATO Secretary General Javier Solana directly addressed the people of Sarajevo. Usually,...
Wed, Jul 08, 1998The digital imaginationSubscriber Only
June 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
Something unusual happened to books this month. They no longer need to come out in hardback or paperback, nor in paper and ink. June 1998 ha...
Mon, Jun 15, 1998There’s a hole in the mintSubscriber Only
June 14,1998 00:00:00 AM
A remarkably clear memory from the '60s: A battered biscuit tin with two puppies and a kitten printed on it. Inside, a hoard of coins that w...
Sun, Jun 14, 1998Wake-up call for BARCSubscriber Only
June 08,1998 00:00:00 AM
The Bhaba Atomic Research Centre has been hacked and the sneaky pimple-faced kids who did it are crowing that a nation with nuclear capabili...
Mon, Jun 08, 1998The Godzilla of capitalismSubscriber Only
May 25,1998 00:00:00 AM
Microsoft versus the US Department of Justice has borne an uncanny resemblance to Saddam versus the globocop. There's been a slow buildup ov...
Mon, May 25, 1998NRIs battle out N-issue on the NetSubscriber Only
May 22,1998 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 21: On the Internet, opinion is cheap in a glut of jerking knees. Every development, no matter how trivial or local, immediat...
Fri, May 22, 1998God of the global villageSubscriber Only
May 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
Marshall McLuhan, father of the global village, assumed that its inhabitants would be able to communicate with the immediacy of their most r...
Mon, May 11, 1998Kids just wanna have fun… that’s what they really wantSubscriber Only
May 09,1998 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 8: A little girl, too young even for play school, stands rapt before a colour monitor, watching a teacher's caricature in a c...
Sat, May 09, 1998Goodbye to all thatSubscriber Only
May 03,1998 00:00:00 AM
At 8:30 in the morning on April 6, 1930, Mahatma Gandhi picked up a handful of unrefined salt, broke the law and gave the freedom movement i...
Sun, May 03, 1998Preview of the day afterSubscriber Only
April 27,1998 00:00:00 AM
Every other week some teenager, somewhere in the world, gets into a sensitive US installation's servers and replaces the picture of its dire...
Mon, Apr 27, 1998The very idea of Phoolan DeviSubscriber Only
April 22,1998 00:00:00 AM
By this time next week, Phoolan Devi's candidacy to the Nobel Peace Prize will be history. But the mere fact that her name could be floated ...
Wed, Apr 22, 1998Power demands its own methodsSubscriber Only
April 16,1998 00:00:00 AM
Almost a month in office and the BJP is still betraying, at every step, an embarrassing unfamiliarity with the levers of power. The transiti...
Thu, Apr 16, 1998The engines of growthSubscriber Only
April 13,1998 00:00:00 AM
Early last week, something funny happened to search engines. Two funny things, actually. First, the NEC Research Institute (neci.nj.nec.com)...
Mon, Apr 13, 1998Sex sells, yet againSubscriber Only
March 30,1998 00:00:00 AM
Call it rampant capitalism. Call it an indictment of human perversity. Or call it a comment on the human condition. Whatever your ethical st...
Mon, Mar 30, 1998Journalism of Courage
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