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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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October 15, 2006

Not a wasted effort

A large proportion of Mumbai's population is made up of immigrant labour which has no sense of belonging to the city.
October 1, 2006

An overstretched judiciary

The courts get occupied with potholes, CNG depots, location of abattoirs, release of films, mid-day meals, etc
September 17, 2006

This is a Hair piece

Why should a game of cricket depend on factors like umpiring competence, umpiring egos, umpiring personalities?
September 3, 2006

Storm in a cola cup

Many die of water-borne diseases, and most Indians fall sick from time to time because of it. Yet, not a murmur against it.
August 20, 2006

Copping it again

Given the police track record, the more high-profile the case, the less chances of police charges sticking in a court of law.
August 6, 2006

Comical cops in khaki

If the police had been doing what they should have been doing, who knows if 11/7 would have happened at all? asks Anil Dharker.
July 23, 2006

The selfish car

Every other major city which comes down heavily on private transport first puts an efficient and comfortable public system in place.
July 9, 2006

Babudom incorporated

Arjun Singh’s Reservations bomb relegated to the back pages what would normally have been on Page One: the ouster of Subir Raha.
June 11, 2006

Of pawns and politics

The problem with Husain and Aamir is that they are Muslims. Hindu artists've painted unclothed goddesses without a problem: Anil Dharkar.
May 28, 2006

The merchant of dreams

Ismail Merchant died a year ago. Even his death was like the rest of his life: sudden and dramatic, leaving close friends and family stunned.
May 27, 2006

We, the intolerant

To prove that India is indeed secular, all communities have jumped in to show that intolerance knows no boundaries.
May 14, 2006

Blood brothers of Bombay

The Mahajan shooting has another angle. That of the family. “I am the poor brother of a rich man,” Pravin said in his statement.
April 30, 2006
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