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  1. Who is `Matrix’ Nimmagadda Prasad?

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    / May 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Once known as the man with the Midas touch, Nimmagadda Prasad, popularly known as ‘Matrix’ Prasad is the largest investor in Jaganmohan Reddy’ss business empire and also the largest beneficiary of land grants by the YSR government. Prasad and his companies, listed as Accused no. 12, 22 and 23 in...

  3. Suicides, unfortunately a numbers game

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    / April 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The unfortunate spectre of suicides for the sake of a separate Telangana state returned to haunt India this week. Telangana agitators hoped the Centre would sit up and take note of young lives taking the extreme step, overwhelmed by emotion. But three deaths on Saturday went unnoticed as the media...

  4. Why did the women voters complain?

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    / March 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Members of self-help groups of women in Warangal and Adilabad Districts of Andhra Pradesh are up in arms against the Kiran Kumar Reddy government alleging discrimination in political sops. Wanna know what their complaint is? Their protest is not against payment for votes but that they were discriminated and paid...

  5. Keeping an eye on paid media

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    / March 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
      The next time you report on the winning chances of a candidate and the appeal of a party in any election coverage story, you will come under the purview of ‘paid news’ and the expenditure on the story will get added on to the candidate’s election expenditure.   On...

  6. What is there in a statue?

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    / January 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch In a country where statues and temples are regarded as incarnations of leaders and deities, Andhra Pradesh would set a milestone. Interestingly, there are more statues of Dr B R Ambedkar than Mahatma Gandhi in the state. Religious and community leaders like Agrasen and Vangaveeti Ranga have...

  7. The NTR I knew

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    / January 18, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By Andhra Watch  In media parlance, NTR meant `Nothing To Report’ but the man who changed the political landspace of Andhra Pradesh always had something to report about.   From June 1982 when he began his district tours and till the day his breathed his last (January 18, 1996) Nandamuri...

  8. Trying a lunar eclipse on Chandrababu

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    / November 16, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch All through his innings as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandrababu Naidu was known as the poster boy of reforms and the World Bank. Now in his attempt to reinvent himself, he projects himself as the Anna Hazare of the south, a poster boy of campaign against...

  9. Andhra Pradesh ke hamam me sab nange hain

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    / November 13, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Andhra Watch   As I went through newspaper reports about how IAS and IPS officers in Andhra Pradesh are now protesting against criminal action initiated against them for their role in several controversial acts to please their political bosses, I am amazed at the attempts to plead `not guilty’....

  10. Kiran’s cabinet of woes

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    / August 2, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Andhra Watch The period between June 18 and August 2 will go down in the administrative history of Andhra Pradesh as a `blank era’. It will be known as a period without any cabinet meetings, video conferences or district collectors conference. Caught between the Telangana agitators and the high...

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