Come back Doordarshan, all is forgiven In urban areas, DD is no longer the channel of first or even last preference, either for news or entertainment.
February 17, 2008
Attacking Amitabh Bachchan was a mistakeCulture is the most used and abused notion of our times. The Nazis were adept at the cultural game — without culture, Nazism would have collapsed.
February 10, 2008
How journos lost their outsider tagI never got an opportunity to work in Russy Karanjia’s newspapers, but met him often enough to get an idea of what kind of man he was.
February 3, 2008
How Fischer went from king to pawn 3One has to be a chess player to truly understand his genius. His games are pure poetry combined with logic, mathematical precision and ruthlessness.
January 20, 2008
Killing us softly with mindless jargonWhen I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”
January 13, 2008
There are many kinds of mobs in MumbaiMigrants from those two states have visibly increased in Mumbai but there is no evidence to suggest that they form the bulk of newcomers.
January 6, 2008
Carrying the burden of democracyKashmir has borne the brunt of terrorism for nearly two decades and before that it was Punjab that had got hit by militancy and Pakistan has long been held responsible.
December 30, 2007
Christmas now belongs to all of usChristmas, of course, does not belong to Christians any more. From being a religious festival, it has become one celebrated — with gusto, one might add
December 23, 2007
Gujarat is not about developmentNarendra Modi the fascist or Narendra Modi the visionary? The mass murderer or the upholder of his state’s pride?
December 16, 2007
Time to start learning MandarinThere is a seamier side too and Shanghai has it more than most —beggars, fake good sellers and pimps — but that is inevitable in a massive city of 20 million people.
December 9, 2007
Getting blackmailed by the mobIf you can manage really high decibel levels and your mob can burn a bus or two, then you might even manage to get the writer or painter themselves banned.
November 25, 2007
No bad news please, we’re IndianBleeding in whatever form — and this included violence, accidents, wars — was news and if it was on a large scale, it made bigger news.
November 18, 2007
A lesson for the returning nativePeriodic holidays had been too few and far between and mixing with other desis in their small town was not the same. This was the real thing.
November 4, 2007
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