Amrita Shah
The Indian Express Group
Tuesday 1 September '09
People in Gujarat have become so accustomed to bans, particularly on films dealing with communal violence that they assume such products have been banned even when they have in fact not been banned.Saturday 1 August '09
Navigating history and geography, a response to the 2005 Mumbai floodsMonday
24 August '09When one thinks of the quintessential Hindi film heroine it is invariably someone of statuesque proportions and a certain melancholic beauty.Sunday
9 August '09Crimes by the young in our major metros are becoming increasingly common.Saturday
1 August '09Why would you participate in a show that threatens to reveal your secrets, embarrass you, hurt people close to you?Monday
27 July '09In my blog last week I wrote about the phenomenon of restaurants pushing feedback forms on diners.Monday
20 July '09It used to be pesky salesmen on the phone but now they are pestering you at lunch.Sunday
12 July '09I was in Ahmedabad the day the hooch tragedy came to light. It started with a few deaths and then the numbers rose, rapidly.Sunday
5 July '09Some weeks ago, on a flight, I watched Milk, a film about the life of the American gay rights campaigner Harvey Milk. The film was about a remarkable man who fought for his beliefs with passion and joie de vivre and who died sadly young.Sunday
28 June '09We’ve been hearing stories of Michael Jackson’s shady lifestyle for so long that we had almost forgotten what made him famous in the first place.Saturday
20 June '09Early last week, the media was full of images of a faceless domestic servant who had caused a celebrated Bollywood actor to be arrested on charges of rape.Saturday
6 June '09Imagine the following scenario: you are travelling abroad. You check in and proceed for security check up inwardly groaning at the ordeal that awaits you.Sunday
31 May '09In an influential essay Virginia Woolf once asked the reader to imagine what would have happened if Shakespeare had a sister.Saturday
23 May '09Watching Kris Allen beat Adam Lambert to win the title of American Idol was like witnessing a Maruti 800 steal a march over a Porsche.Friday
24 April '09The squeamishness about sex education doesn’t square with our outrè pop cultureThursday
16 April '09Provocation can score important cultural points. But the Akshay-Twinkle act was a damp squib by any measureSunday
22 March '09M.G. Vassanji’s literary homecoming is rather distracted and datedFriday
20 February '09Fencing parks and charging entry fees may bring benefits. But it comes with a price tagWednesday
18 February '09Calcutta to Delhi, Shah Rukh to Abhay: ‘Dev.D’ describes our changesThursday
29 January '09Will the outrage over Mangalore finally prompt recognition of the Sangh’s woman-hating ways?Wednesday
31 December '08How Mumbai became Bombay in 2008 and what it means for usSunday
30 November '08In travel literature, Mumbai is commonly referred to as the ‘Gateway of India’.Friday
28 November '08Nothing seems normal anymore. In the red glare of the television footage you see scenes that belong to no place you know. And yet you know it so well.Saturday
22 November '08A creative medium that once united the country is now under attack, being rendered less effective as glueWednesday
29 October '08The city needs to reach into its past for a wiser, more accommodative self
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