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  1. Nithyananda in the dock over tiger skins

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    / June 26, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It would seem Godman Swami Nithyananda’s troubles with the law will just not end. The Madurai police have raided Madurai Adheenam where he is the newly appointed junior pontiff. This was after Nithyananda was booked under the Wildlife Protection Act because he allegedly sits on tiger skin and elephant tusks....

  2. When Naidu flew off the handle for a flyover

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    / June 26, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Just what’s wrong with Chandrababu Naidu? That’s the question everyone is asking after his `maha dharna’ in Vijayawada on Monday. Naidu was demanding the construction of a flyover near the Kanakadurga temple in the city to reduce traffic congestion. A former CM of Andhra Pradesh agitating for a flyover, begs...

  3. Dear GHMC Commissioner

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    / June 25, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Dear GHMC commissioner, I commute to work in Hyderabad. My route is through back-breaking and dug-up roads, through clogged and overflowing drains, and through garbage heaps breeding mosquitoes. You might have received a thousand letters, e-mail and other forms of communication regarding the problems. But, the point is, what have...

  4. What’s for breakfast? 18 pesticides !

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    / June 24, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If you are in Hyderabad, you would be shocked to know that you just consumed 18 different pesticides for breakfast. And the same would probably continue to be on the menu whatever you have for lunch and dinner. Today, tomorrow, everyday. A report released by the Hyderabad-based National Institute of...

  5. Hinglish Tinglish!

    Posted by Rama Menon
    / June 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The British quit India long ago but left behind a legacy in the form of English. Despite the heavy regional influence on the language, English continues to connect people from Kashmir to Kanyakumari and from Gujarat to Tripura. Each region has a specific dialect, which Indians consider their `mother tongue’. Written...

  6. We are like that only, Ms Kiran Bedi

    Posted by
    / June 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Let me begin with apologising to Kiran Bedi. We the corrupt people of Andhra Pradesh have elected 17 MLAs and one MP belonging to two parties that you perhaps see as “corrupt”. A majority of them to the YSR Congress, whose leader Jaganmohan Reddy is in judicial custody in a...

  7. Nithyananda re-arrested, sent to jail

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    / June 14, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Twists and turns in the godman Nithyananda case. Just hours after being granted bail by a court in Ramangar, he was re-arrested today and remanded to one-day judicial custody on charges of disturbing peace. Nithyananda was arrested on Wednesday after he appeared before a court to surrender in an assault...

  8. Race for President to change PM?

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    / June 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sometime in May, when this important ally of the Congress in the UPA was called by Sonia Gandhi for discussions on the Presidential election, he decided to be candid. “Ma’m, we will support whoever you decide to nominate for the President. But I have a request to make. Please change...

  9. To my fother

    Posted by Bhavana Upadhyaya
    / June 12, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Mother says you threatened to leave her if a girl was born. And that she was surprised when you held me with delight. And that for months afterwards you were the one who put me to sleep at night, rolling on your warm brown shoulders to the rumble of your...

  10. `Dry day’ during monsoon

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    / June 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Monsoon is the season to get wet but authorities in Hyderabad want you to observe a `dry day’ once in a week. Lest you get it wrong, this is an effort to check the mosquito menace and the spread of malaria this monsoon. The state health department wants everyone to...

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