Shailaja Bajpai
The Indian Express Group
Saturday 2 August '08
Tanu Srivastava, 9, is a student from Azamgarh, Amaar Khan studies in Indore, Loria Dhosi, 13, belongs to Udaipur...Tuesday 22 July '08
The story so far: an extremely wealthy individual, first among equals, holds an engagement party for his three beautiful...Tuesday
15 July '08The girl wears a dress so mini, she couldn’t sit on it; a smile so evil it stretches into a grimace; her hand carries a black...Thursday
10 July '08Would M S Dhoni minus cricket be the star he is? The answer may seem pretty obvious but a series of ads in which he features make just the opposite point...Tuesday
8 July '08Right: Will we see as much of Manmohan’s Singh’s Left foot as we have in the past four years now that the Samajwadi Party...Tuesday
1 July '08They call it the news and then make it into fiction. We know this but somehow can never quite find the clinching evidence.Tuesday
24 June '08Sometimes, we seem to read history in reverse order, and it can be quite perplexing. Rajdeep Sardesai paid Kapil Dev this backhanded compliment...Tuesday
17 June '08On ETV’s Bihar channel, there’s a reconstruction of the murderous attack on Chandrika by her husband Virendra.Tuesday
3 June '08Let’s talk about a subject that is not the normal topic of conversation here. This is not about elections, film stars...Tuesday
27 May '08As TV botches the poll and crime stories TV news loves cricket. It fills in time that would otherwise need filling in with news...Wednesday
21 May '08An unsolved murder brings out the killer instinct in TV news - they murder their finer instincts and attack the story.Thursday
15 May '08We saw blood on the tracks. Strangled cycle rickshaws, twisted into the shapes of death, floodlit streets empty of anything but deathly shadows.Tuesday
13 May '08Just when we thought the news was dead and long since buried under heaps of ceaseless drivel...Tuesday
6 May '08There are at least two lessons Indian soaps can teach Indian cinema: the first is how to create something out of nothing...Tuesday
29 April '08After we saw the news about the slap we didn’t witness, we wanted to slap them for showing us Sreesanth’s crying face...Tuesday
22 April '08The game has changed, the atmospherics have been transformed, but some people just don’t get it.Tuesday
15 April '08Had Graeme Smith read The Wasteland before the Kanpur test match he’d have known April is the cruellest month...Tuesday
8 April '08That Smriti Irani has returned to Kyunki... within a year of her departure is perhaps inconsequential. But we can read somethings into her returnTuesday
1 April '08Was there ever a time when a talent show was more about talent than showmanship...Tuesday
25 March '08There’s a new Hindi news channel on the air: News 24. Perhaps you did not notice it on account of the company it...Monday
24 March '08The collapse of Bear Stearns, the fifth biggest American investment bank, is cover story for Newsweek and The Economist.Tuesday
18 March '08The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne told the story of a woman who is branded with the letter A to identify...Monday
17 March '08The Economist cover story ‘China, The New Colonialists’ reveals startling statistics: China gobbles up more than half of the world’s pork...Tuesday
11 March '08It’s the new international anthem. Barack Obama sings it, Ishant Sharma signifies it and dear old Ekta Kapoor...Monday
10 March '08India makes it to the cover of The Economist, Hillary to Time’s but there’s something about China which makes the media see red.
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