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The writer is at the Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
February 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
Sometime in the late 70s when I was a student at the Elphinstone College I happened to be walking on the pavement outside Rhythm House wi...
Sat, Feb 13, 1999January 30,1999 00:00:00 AM
Tuesday, January 26, 7 a.m.:I am shattered, I am devastated. My nerves are all on edge. It's only 7 in the morning and the nukkad DJ has ...
Sat, Jan 30, 1999January 16,1999 00:00:00 AM
You can't miss the word. It springs at you from everywhere these days. Scrawled on pieces of cardboard with arrows scratched below, on fr...
Sat, Jan 16, 1999January 02,1999 00:00:00 AM
If there is one thing in which Delhiites claim to score over Mumbai, it is in the number of holiday destinations that seem just an arm's ...
Sat, Jan 02, 1999December 19,1998 00:00:00 AM
I feel like I've known Dilip Kumar all my life. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if his name figured in the first few words I ever spoke. ...
Sat, Dec 19, 1998December 05,1998 00:00:00 AM
Mumbai is a concrete jungle. Right? There is pollution -- increasing every day -- crime and illness. If the mosquitoes don't kill you the...
Sat, Dec 05, 1998November 21,1998 00:00:00 AM
After a prolonged drought the gods seem to be smiling on Mumbai. I am not talking of the monsoon, though that too has been unusually munific...
Sat, Nov 21, 1998November 07,1998 00:00:00 AM
Are we drugged? Are we under a spell? Are we so fatalistic that we expect the Gods and the stars to determine our lives? Or is life such a b...
Sat, Nov 07, 1998October 24,1998 00:00:00 AM
Britain has its dole queues and America has its stockmarket suicides. But in India when we need a vivid reminder of the state of the econ...
Sat, Oct 24, 1998October 10,1998 00:00:00 AM
It is 11.35 am in the first class ladies compartment of a train headed into town. There are fifteen passengers seated around me. Three of...
Sat, Oct 10, 1998September 26,1998 00:00:00 AM
Swadeshi-videshi. The debate rages on and on. Much Coke has flowed under the bridge, and the big Mac has been tamed. Yet we haven't reach...
Sat, Sep 26, 1998August 31,1998 00:00:00 AM
It is an interesting analogy. After confessing to an improper relationship with a young woman, Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of suspec...
Mon, Aug 31, 1998August 29,1998 00:00:00 AM
1977: ``We roamed around Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg that night in a kind of community rejoicing, with groups breaking into dance and song in...
Sat, Aug 29, 1998August 15,1998 00:00:00 AM
About a year ago, a young activist was abducted and killed by terrorists in Assam. I hadn't met Sanjoy Ghose in over a decade. But it was...
Sat, Aug 15, 1998August 01,1998 00:00:00 AM
How should we treat icons? The success of Gandhi Virudh Gandhi -- a play on the Mahatma's troubled relationship with his son -- and the r...
Sat, Aug 01, 1998July 18,1998 00:00:00 AM
You caught a glimpse of him in Deewar, you saw him in Rangeela, there were shades of him in Yes Boss and now here he is again in Ghulam. ...
Sat, Jul 18, 1998July 04,1998 00:00:00 AM
IT was lying on the table at a friend's office in Chennai when I dropped in last week. I flipped through it idly while I waited for him to f...
Sat, Jul 04, 1998June 19,1998 00:00:00 AM
Life in a Mumbai chawl revolved around the common loo where residents would queue up with a `tumbril' in hand. ``Those were the days when we...
Fri, Jun 19, 1998April 25,1998 00:00:00 AM
When reports last came in, box office queues for the movie of the decade are still serpentine. Several weeks running and people are still fl...
Sat, Apr 25, 1998April 11,1998 00:00:00 AM
Who is the most important person in India today? The Prime Minister? The President? Shah Rukh Khan?Nope, nope and nope. The answer, in my hu...
Sat, Apr 11, 1998March 23,1998 00:00:00 AM
Some weeks ago during the launch break at a seminar on women and the media in Mumbai, coversation turned to the rapid commercialisation of e...
Mon, Mar 23, 1998
