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Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Anil Dharker
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Anil Dharker is a Mumbai-based writer and columnist.

At various stages in his life, Dharker has been an engineer (on the academic staff of the University of Glasgow and as a consultant in a Mumbai architectural firm), a film critic and censor, a promoter of New Cinema (with the National Film Development Corporation) and an editor (successively, of Debonair, Mid-Day and Sunday Mid-Day, The Independent, and The Illustrated Weekly of India).

Dharker has worked in television as producer and anchor as well as head of a news television channel, then poised for takeoff. He was also, briefly, creative director of the Zee Television network. He is still remembered for his long stint as TV critic at The Sunday Observer, where readers, viewers, producers, Doordarshan directors-general and government ministers found his column the one they loved to hate. These were reprinted in an anthology by HarperCollins titled Sorry Not Ready, Television in the Time of PMdarshan.

Dharker has written a coffee-table book on Goa, a biography of industrialist OP Jindal (The Man Who Talked To Machines), and a book on Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March (The Romance Of Salt). Recently he brought out an anthology, Icons, The Men & Women Who Shaped Today's India.

Dharker lives in Mumbai's Malabar Hill and plays tennis passionately at the Bombay Gymkhana. He has a daughter Ayesha, who is known for her roles in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams (London West End and Broadway) and The Terrorist. She is currently pursuing an acting career in London.

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Mumbai needs a sea change

It struck me as odd that in spite of the blanket coverage of the World Cup, our knowledge of the Caribbean Islands was zero: Anil Dharker.
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How to police the police

The reputation of the police in this country is at such a low point that we are all ready to believe the very worst of the department: Anil Dharker.
April 15, 2007

Can our fashion go the fiction way?

Fashion shows make us think of haute couture. But couture is what we don't really have; what we have is prêt and something that’s between prêt and couture.
April 1, 2007

In defence of Sunil Gavaskar

The Australian problem lies in the mindset. While Bradman was as Australian as you can get, there are no reports that he resorted to sledging.
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Just ban the budget

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March 4, 2007

A leader’s blind spot

Rahul Dravid’s insistence on keeping Sehwag in the team has shut the door on one of India’s best batsman, VVS Laxman, writes Anil Dharker.
February 18, 2007

Ban the bans

In our volatile country where tiny sparks can lead to large-scale violence, governments take the easy way out and ban the book/film/play.
February 4, 2007

Do away with I&B ministry

The I&B minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi is so hyper-active, Dash Munshi better suits his penchant for flying off in every direction at once.
January 21, 2007

Sickness at Noida

Thirty-eight children missing in less than three years, at least 22 of them sexually abused and murdered… Is this routine?
January 7, 2007

Jessica, yes, but Khairlanji?

A middle-class victim looks better, both in press photographs and on television screens, than a poor, malnourished villager.
December 24, 2006

Importance of being ‘nice’

We need to redefine ‘niceness’. Or perhaps we need to go into a philosophical discussion on the Jekyll and Hyde nature of human beings.
December 10, 2006
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