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Anita Roy

Anita Roy

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  • Vox Pop

    Bottled Water brands? My favourite is the one that indicates that the drinker is merely a middle-man, the necessary processing plant to produce the "real" product: it is simply called Pee Mee.

    BY Anita Roy 1 June 2006

    Vox Pop
  • The Mane Event

    This 22-year-old impresario has crammed into his short adult life what most of us might never achieve.

    BY Anita Roy 25 May 2006

    The Mane Event
  • Forty Panelists And An Actress

    The high points were listening to writers like Nadeem Aslam, Amit Chaudhuri and Rana Dasgupta not only reading their work, but discussing the possibilities, the responsibilities and the limitations of being a writer

    BY Anita Roy 25 May 2006

    Forty Panelists And An Actress
  • Vox Pop

    'Doing the needful' is a particularly Indian phrase designed to indicate that the person being requested to do it is about tolaunch on the kind of irrelevant, convoluted, tortuous, meandering maze that would make Kafka break out in hives.

    BY Anita Roy 18 May 2006

    Vox Pop
  • Vox Pop

    It seems not very long ago that the word "solution" had a particular meaning. In the 1990s, it suddently took on a new aspect, spreading like a heinous computer virus that no firewall could stop.

    BY Anita Roy 11 May 2006

    Vox Pop
  • The Outsiders

    What is this, Bloomspuri? Anita Roy asks the non-Dilliwala writers who have made this city their own

    BY Anita Roy 3 May 2006

    The Outsiders
  • Vox Pop

    Charge-sheeting, undertrials, goonda-tax: the papers are rife with this criminal lexicon. Nouns mug verbs, adverbs bump off verbs, adverbs are adjectivised with impunity.

    BY Anita Roy 27 April 2006

    Vox Pop
  • Vox Pop

    After 10 years, close observation and hard research, I have a pretty low opinion of Indian urban male sexuality, but even I had trouble plumbing these depths.

    BY Anita Roy 13 April 2006

    Vox Pop
  • Vox Pop

    The jargon of selling living space is an art in itself. A poky, hot, dark flat is transformed in print to become a "surprisingly spacious, south-facing residence"...

    BY Anita Roy 6 April 2006

    Vox Pop
  • Vox Pop

    If I see one more oil-smoothed, side-partinged, smug little totlet parroting Newton's Third Law of Motion, I shall puke.

    BY Anita Roy 30 March 2006

    Vox Pop

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