Shailaja Bajpai
The Indian Express Group
Tuesday 3 November '09
What a difference twenty-five years makes. A quarter of a century ago, the television screen (black and white) was frozen in time.Tuesday 13 October '09
T.S. Eliot once famously wrote, “humankind/Cannot bear very much reality”. Indian TV producers obviously don’t read poetry. For, they don’t just bear reality, they wallow in it like a sow does in a mud bath.Tuesday
6 October '09Yesterday’s movie stars have moved to reality TVTuesday
29 September '09Weddings are hot right now. And, Ekta Kapoor takes on TV vèritè with her new serial....Tuesday
22 September '09This is a Slumdog Millionaire quiz. Who asked Satyajit Ray to make a film for them? Who got Ravi Shankar to compose their ...Tuesday
15 September '09Kambakht Akshay Kumar. Stands there looking like a work out gym in designer casuals and a scarf (scarf?), clucking his...Tuesday
8 September '09After 26/11, they promised they had learnt from their mistakes and we thought they had. Until last week, when once again, a live and tragic...Tuesday
1 September '09BJP leaders are not alone in jumping into the ring and wrestling each other. Three lusty lads from Haryana have traveled to South Africa for a bout or two.Tuesday
25 August '09Jaswant unplugged: Here, there and everywhere. Not a channel was ignored, nobody went disappointed as Jaswant Singh spread himself out across last week.Tuesday
18 August '09Kiran Bedi, in her signature short back and sides, her intelligent spectacles and a finger which wags almost at will when confronted by criminals...Tuesday
11 August '09Swine flu or sex flu? If it’s H1N1 you’re looking to, then of course you must choose the news channels which are spreading it as far and wide...Tuesday
4 August '09At least reality TV gives some back, compared to our depressing entertainment serialsTuesday
28 July '09Sunday, according to DD News, was ‘martiers day’. Wasn’t sure if we were celebrating martians or martyrs. Either way, violence was done to the English...Tuesday
21 July '09Boy, are there differences in perception between India and the US. Sunday morning, we saw Hillary Clinton on Indian news channels wreathed...Tuesday
14 July '09Twenty five years ago, a lower middle class family imposed itself on us and demanded, commanded our attention.Tuesday
7 July '09Pit Mamata di against Rakhi S and who would you bet on? After their respective performances on Railway Budget....Tuesday
30 June '09We first watched MJ on videotape. It was the eighties, a one-channel, VCR India before satellites brought the entire world to the flat TV screen.Tuesday
23 June '09Wouldn’t the Pakistanis have just loved to watch our news channels last weekend? After more than six months...Tuesday
16 June '09At least TV commercials have recovered some of their zany spiritTuesday
9 June '09Parliament shocks us with its perfect decorum, and words can’t convey the Twenty20 excitementTuesday
2 June '09On other channels, soaps pop the bubble and take on realityTuesday
26 May '09What will news do now that all drama has been wrung out from cricket and elections?Wednesday
20 May '09This election, TV was groping in the dark — but it was fun anywayTuesday
12 May '09Well, everybody’s doing it, so why don’t we? In the silly season of numerology, who has the numbers?Tuesday
5 May '09Don’t you love the friendly fluid creatures that liven up the IPL?
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