The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Sunday, November 23 1997

Letters to the Editor

"Is it called pop just because it is screened on MTV?"

Her resurrection was largely through RD Burman remixes in the MTV age; the newly acquired clutch of Channel [V] awards; and most recently the lashing out against Maharashtra governments -- past and present -- for ignoring her contribution to music. In an interview to Deepa Deosthalee Asha Bhonsle answers a range of questions.

You Poirot, me Jain

For the n-th time in the six years he had taken to put his 17 volumes of preliminary notes on the Grand Conspiracy Theory together, his sharp, analytical mind dissected the sequence of events. Place: Sriperumbudur. Date: May 21, 1991. The blast, the scattered bodies, the shrieks...

Sprinter on the run

There is this tale of a girl who left the dusty village roads back home to set ablaze synthetic tracks across the world. The girl comes back as a celebrity to a country delirious about cricket, and high on a World Cup win.

"Is it called pop just because it is screened on MTV?"

You Poirot, me Jain

Sprinter on the run