Articles by Sanya
The readers: In their craft or sullen art
Some poems are written to be read aloud, while some others are rendered somewhat lesser when ‘performed’. The distinction is mirrored among those who take in the works — the reader-turned-listener, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Mar 06, 2009 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
The real parliamentarians
You better not refer to a parliamentarian as a ‘giggling goose’ or a ‘Genghis Khan’. ‘Geriatric Bible basher’ and ‘gadarene swine’ are out too.
Updated on Feb 28, 2009 11:47 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
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I am not given to public displays of affection. But I’m also not a cheerleader for those who want to ban such a thing outright. Amitava Sanyal tells more.
Updated on Feb 06, 2009 10:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
And the world watched: Toothless in Gaza
Whether the ceasefire in Gaza holds or not, one war will go on unabated. This ‘other war’ is often more vindictive than the one that has claimed more than a thousand lives in less than a month, writes Amitava Sanyal.See graphics
Updated on Jan 24, 2009 01:28 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
A candle for those who lived like a flame
Even when they don’t border on the hagiographical, obituaries often tend to observe an old rule: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 25, 2010 06:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
West by northwest: On the gypsy trail
It was not just Adolf Hitler who hated them. More than half a century after more than half a million of them perished in Nazi concentration camps, they remain the ‘most hated community’ in Europe, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 25, 2010 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
Licence to thrill: The best of James Bond
Every small fixture of the Bond formula is debated by fans flung far. Except, perhaps, the latest title, Quantum of Solace — everyone agrees that it sucks. Amitava Sanyal tells more.
Updated on Aug 25, 2010 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Commandos in the crosshairs
Nothing connects the word ‘commando’ to popular imagination in a more engaging manner than Commando Comics, the comic books that lit up the imagination of generations of kids, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 25, 2010 06:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
All about the money
A financial history that covers 4,000 years, stops just short of the most critical economic event of our times: Crash of 2008, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Jan 03, 2009 11:14 PM IST
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The green anarchy machine
Left to his own ways, John Zerzan would bring down almost every edifice of civilisation as we know it, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Jan 03, 2009 12:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
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Even when they don’t border on the hagiographical, obituaries often tend to observe an old rule: De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
Updated on Dec 27, 2008 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
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Nothing perhaps connects the word ‘commando’ to popular imagination better than Commando Comics, the graphic stories that lit up the imagination of generations of kids.
Updated on Dec 12, 2008 10:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
The astronaut of earthy wisdom
One minute, Linenger was spewing a torrent of jargons at jet speed to explain his predicament in zero-gravity; the next moment he was down to crawling speed, popping out nuggets of wisdom, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Nov 22, 2008 01:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
A man to man conversation
Two friends gaze at two volumes that capture the works of Saadat Hasan Manto, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Oct 22, 2008 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Scratch the surface, spin the world
Jason’s life changed sharply at the age of 19 when his parents’ marriage fell apart. He shifted to a new city, shaved his head, and immersed deeper into music, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Oct 22, 2008 05:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Like Father, Like Son
Naseeruddin Shah wants to be known as his son’s father. But his father’s shadow is getting longer in his own life. Amitava Sanyal chats with the veteran...
Updated on Sep 29, 2008 07:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Like father like son
Naseeruddin Shah wants to be known as his son’s father. But his father’s shadow is getting longer in his own life, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Sep 26, 2008 10:19 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
The stronger sex
To explain the link between banking and virility, Shiv Shankar Singh leans conspiratorially close. “A man’s semen is like money kept at a bank,” whispers the wispy-thin 60-year-old. Amitava Sanyal tells more...
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 11:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
A twirl that makes it worthwhile
Fu Manchu, Genghis Khan, Dalí. If someone sprung these words on an unsuspecting you and asked for the common thread, you would be forgiven for thinking them to be characters from a surreal videogame, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Sep 20, 2008 11:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Singur: Many questions, many answers..
Forget the Tata nano project for a moment. Forget Mamata Banerjee in the forefront of yet another war against the West Bengal government. Amitava Sanyal travelled to Singur, slipping away from the political rallies and the agit-props and met the people of Singur.
Updated on Aug 31, 2008 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Mela adds to the melee
When Tata Motors decided to build the Nano plant in this sleepy agricultural area, it was hoped the project would spawn an ecology of downstream units, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 27, 2008 12:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, Singur
Grappling with kushti
India may have rediscovered wrestling as a ‘national sport’ this week. But it doesn’t seem to be the same sport that got us an Olympic bronze. And the government is surely not its cheerleader, Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 24, 2008 12:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
A different school of thought
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan focused on quantity in its first leg. But now, with the Right to Education Bill inching closer to Parliament, the spotlight needs to be on teacher quality, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 03, 2008 12:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Making an Idiot Box out of YouTube
For itself, YouTube has taken the steps of streaming live broadcasts and of providing many of its videos in high definition. The TV industry, on its part, has introduced record-and-playback technologies, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Aug 02, 2008 12:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Learning by beads
After being absent from the pathshalas of India for most of the last two millenniums, the ancient tool of calculation is staging a roaring comeback here, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Jul 05, 2008 11:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Bigger Bro watching: divulging Tube data
One of the most pet nightmares of netizens has just come true. The niggling worry over what would happen if the 'cookies' lodged in our computers fell into the hands of a third party never really left us. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen in the weeks ahead, reports Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on Jul 04, 2008 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal
Goooood evening, Delhi
Amitava Sanyal goes to Fever 104’s swank studios one hot evening and comes off feeling a lot cooler.
Updated on Jun 21, 2008 11:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
Urban price index on track, rural one languishes
The rural index is stuck because of lack of manpower at the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO), which would do the fieldwork. Amitava Sanyal reports.
Updated on Jun 01, 2008 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
Coming, an inflation index for cities
On the way is a new index for measuring the urban cost of living — one that will give urban India a more accurate sense of how prices are changing. Amitava Sanyal reports.
Updated on Jun 01, 2008 11:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal, New Delhi
Wrestling for Delhi’s secular heart
Even as it grapples with rules old and new, the Capital revives an old sport. And now girls are welcome too, writes Amitava Sanyal.
Updated on May 31, 2008 09:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Amitava Sanyal