The writer is a Delhi-based senior journalist
November 09,2003 00:00:00 AM
Six years since Diana the Woman died and Diana the Industry received its most significant boost, the mildly entertaining and often exasperat...
October 19,2003 00:00:00 AM
YEARS before the Punjab police busted the immigration racket it says his family runs, millions of ordinary Indians already knew Daler Mehndi...
October 15,2003 00:00:00 AM
As the Vishwa Hindu Parishad’s Ram readies to take on the regime of RAM — Rajput-Ahir-Muslim, the social coalition underpinning Mu...
October 12,2003 00:00:00 AM
If Ramesh Sippy ever decided to make an updated, politically realistic version of Sholay, what would it turn out like? Jai and Veeru would p...
September 21,2003 00:00:00 AM
Depending on how he plays his cards, Murli Manohar Joshi is poised to either score a self-goal or outsmart all the other contenders for lead...
September 08,2003 00:00:00 AM
On the 15th of Xanthicus (roughly, April), AD 74, Eleazer ben Yair, leader of a Jewish community besieged by invading Romans in their rock f...
August 31,2003 00:00:00 AM
ABOUT a quarter century ago, practitioners of Hindi cinema’s prodigious gossip industry were going bananas trying to second guess Hema ...
August 07,2003 00:00:00 AM
Is it just a fevered imagination or is there a direct correlation between Indo-Pakistani romanticism and the screeching and hollering that s...
August 03,2003 00:00:00 AM
READING The Third World War is a frustrating experience, not with the book that is but the book that may have been. The template is fine: sp...
July 11,2003 00:00:00 AM
From selling TV rights for ‘A’ team tours to promoting a corporate summer cricket tournament, the Board of Control for Cricket in ...
About twice every year, an old codger from New Delhi’s teeming club of Cold War nostalgics wakes up and demands a China-Russia-India al...
July 10,2003 00:00:00 AM
It could be cricket’s version of futures trading. Jagmohan Dalmiya, market-savvy president of the Board for Control of Cricket in India...
June 13,2003 00:00:00 AM
Rouglhy every six months, New Delhi goes into an almighty tizzy over whether Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani are still an item. It begi...
June 08,2003 00:00:00 AM
A S the three extracts on these pages illustrate, Fareed Zakaria’s The Future of Freedom is a cautionary tale, a ‘‘caveat emp...
June 01,2003 00:00:00 AM
Rajiv Pratap Rudy, 41, is living embodiment of the law of unintended consequences. Years ago, he met an acquaintance from his student days i...
May 27,2003 00:00:00 AM
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is pushing for early restoration of Indo-Pak cricketing ties, proposing to the Centre a set...
