1. Hyderabad waits for the Metro experience

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    Ask any Hyderabadi about the Hyderabad Metro Rail and he would most likely tell you that it is quintessentially Hyderabadi. Not on time ! Indeed, almost in keeping with the city’s notorious chalta hai attitude, the metro rail too is taking its own sweet time chugging into Hyderabad. First Satyam...
  2. Yes to Narasimhan = No to Telangana?

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    There is however, no question mark in the minds of the Telangana supporter in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that Governor E S L Narasimhan’s term has been renewed, according to those in favour of bifurcation of the state, is a clear indication that the Centre is in no mood to...
  3. Why this sudden interest in ball badminton?

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    Source : AP News Live Telugu TV news channels, which are not known to show any interest in local sports activities, have suddenly woken up to ball badminton sport. Many viewers must have wondered why and how this sudden change of heart occurred among the sports-illiterate Telugu channels. Many people...
  4. Who do you hold a beef for?

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    Twitter, where `outrage’ is more often than not, the dominant emotion, yesterday degenerated into verbal diarrhoea of the worst kind. The issue at the centre of it all was the Hyderabad Beef Festival, organised by a group of Dalit students at the Narmada Research Scholars (Ambedkar) Hostel on Osmania University...
  5. The Choices we made

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    Lost in societal complexity, swept away by populistic measures, perpetually running after never attainable dangling carrots, we sometimes portray a very amusing picture of ourselves. Are we the same individuals who carry certain biological genes that are supposedly unchangeable or are we the obvious results of the choices we made...
  6. Katju is being generous. I think 98% of Indians are fools

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    Trust Justice Markandey Katju to hit the nail squarely in the head. Writing in today’s Indian Express - it of the coup-that-was-not-a-coup story infamy – Justice Katju, chairman of the Press Council of India, said he was of the considered opinion that 90% of Indians were fools. He cited our...
  7. Curfew in parts of Old city in Hyderabad

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    Curfew was imposed in Madannapet and Saidabad police station limits in the Old city area of Hyderabad today, following clashes between two groups. The situation in these areas remained tense but under control. The trouble began in the morning when two groups belonging to different communities clashed at Kurmaguda, after...
  8. Lanco vs Wakf

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    Source : AP News Live Did Lanco Infratech grab the 100 acres of land at Manikonda on which it is building SEZ and residential property? Ponnam Prabhakar, Congress MP from Karimnagar, who has a running feud with L Rajagopal, founder-chairman of the company, is the latest to reiterate the accusation....

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