1. Jagan’s Tirumala visit creates controversy

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    The visit of YSR Congress party president YS Jaganmohan Reddy to Tirumala’s Balaji Temple today turned controversial with critics saying he went in for a darshan without signing the formal declaration about his faith in Lord Balaji, violating temple rules. TTD rules require people belonging to non-Hindu religions to sign...
  2. Fast to demand Yesudas’s entry into Guruvayur temple

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    Even as singer K J Yesudas completed 50 years in the music industry, a charitable organisation, Janaseva Munnani, has announced a fast in front of the Guruvayur Sree Krishna temple demanding that Yesudas be allowed entry into the temple. Yesudas, a Christian is not allowed inside the temple as the...
  3. I am a Brahmin but he is not a Reddy

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    “I am a Brahmin and I am the Congress general secretary,” said Rahul Gandhi during a review meeting of the abysmal results in the Uttar Pradesh elections, after the Brahmin lobby reportedly tried to pin the blame the debacle on the party’s aggressive wooing of the minorities and other castes....
  4. Minority is in majority in Kerala

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    Last year around this time, I spent a day with Oommen Chandy while he was campaigning for himself in his Puthupally constituency in Kottayam district. Chandy is an affable man, has no airs, is very approachable and unlike politicians of other states who flaunt their black cats as a status...
  5. Chandy inducts `minority’ ministers, BJP calls for Kerala hartal

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    It is dawn-to-dusk hartal in Kerala today. Why? Because the BJP does not approve of the UDF “succumbing” to IUML pressure and giving the party a fifth berth in the Cabinet. The Hindu Nair community also has protested against “bowing to minorities”. IUML MLA M Ali will be sworn in...