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  1. Telangana: An opportunity lost?

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    / February 11, 2012 / 7 Comments
    “What I did was simple. I declared that the British could not order me about in my own country”, I read Mahatma Gandhi saying, while reading up for my English exam the next day. The Non-cooperation and movement and the later Civil disobedience movement were the coolest schemes ever employed....

  2. Creating space for the lotus in Telangana

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    / January 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By Prof K Nageshwar Now the BJP begins the Telangana struggle Yatra. The party claims it will galvanize the forces for the cause of Telangana state. The basic question at the outset is why should a party that is part of Telangana Joint Action Committee embark upon  a unilateral yatra....

  3. Nothing political about my fast

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    / January 9, 2012 / 1 Comment
    By Y S Jaganmohan Reddy With a view to alleviate the lot of the hapless farmers, I am undertaking a two-day Rythu Deeksha at Armoor in Nizamabad district from Tuesday. The aim of this initiative is to bring to the Government’s notice the plight of the farming community in the...

  4. Dividing UP and AP : Top-Down and Bottom-UP

    Posted by Gautam Pingle
    / November 28, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Gautam Pingle The decision of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Cabinet and its Chief Minister Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to request division of UP into four States is no surprise. She has already had four stints as Chief Minister, in 1995, for four and half months; in...

  5. Is Big not beautiful any more?

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    / November 15, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan ‘Behen’ Mayawati’s bombshell at today’s press conference in Lucknow will be remembered in the circles of power in New Delhi for a long, long time. By talking of dividing Uttar Pradesh into four parts (instead of the original idea of trifurcation), she has just poured the...

  6. PM has insulted people of Telangana

    Posted by K T Rama Rao
    / November 13, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By K T Rama Rao   We totally condemn the attitude of the Prime Minister and his statement that Telangana is not possible without consensus. The Prime Minister refuses to see the reality and is in a state of denial. They have got scant respect, utter disregard for the democratic...

  7. Telangana is shocked

    Posted by Madhu Goud Yaskhi
    / November 13, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Madhu Goud Yaskhi We are shocked by the statement made by the Prime Minister. The people of Telangana feel shocked and betrayed by the UPA goverment. In fact, the Prime Minister himself was a member of the Pranab Mukherjee committee that Madam Sonia appointed when Telangana MPs met and represented...

  8. Civil rights only for separatists?

    Posted by Saurabh Garg
    / November 7, 2011 / 4 Comments
    The rights organizations in the state of Andhra Pradesh have lost all credibility because of their biased approach to the Telangana agitation. These activists have never raised their voice against the outrageous comments and actions of T-activists but keep making a shrill noise over the so-called police repression against Telangana...
    Posted in Telangana
    Tagged bandh, civil rights, separatist

  9. Death of Hyderabad

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    / October 23, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Narasimha Reddy   These days I keep hearing the lament of Hyderabad dying for so and so reason. There is a ‘dominant’ viewpoint that MNCs, software companies, six-lane roads, tall buildings with glass facade, KFCs, Mcdonalds, malls, etc., constitute a state of vibrancy, and any disturbance to such an...

  10. A Hyderabadi says nakko to roko

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    / October 16, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Nisha Sanjeev   Roko! Please! Stop the rokos. Work hartals, educational bandhs and rail strikes are not justified, whatever the demand. I am neither a political commentator nor a social activist. Sitting miles across in the Middle East, I watch helplessly as my city is being mauled. Brand Hyderabad...
    Posted in Telangana
    Tagged bandh, statehood

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