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  1. Use chilli powder on police, says CPM leader

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is taking its fascination for the colour red a bit too far. Kerala CPI(M) state committee member M V Jayarajan asked party workers to store water mixed with chilli powder to counter police if they continued to “harass” them under the pretext of probe. “CPI-M activists should store water...

  2. CPI(M) goes red in the face in Kerala

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    / June 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The knives are out in the sickle and hammer party. Former chief minister V S Achuthanandan, for long at the receiving end of the Pinarayi Vijayan-led faction within the Kerala CPI(M), seems to have decided to take the bull by the horns. His visit to slain Revolutionary Marxist Party leader...

  3. Split wide open : VS hits out at Vijayan

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    / May 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Is former Kerala CM V S Achuthanandan preparing ground to leave the party? It would seem so if the direct nature of his attack on party state secretary Pinarayi Vijayan is any indication. Sample this : VS likened Vijayan to late Communist leader S A Dange, who was criticised for...

  4. CPI ties up with TRS, dumps TDP

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    / March 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live As was widely expected, CPI has decided to throw its weight, for whatever it is worth, behind TRS in the coming by-polls. A powerful section from Telangana within CPI has been advocating an alliance with TRS for sometime now, and this section strongly feels that the...

  5. Kerala’s love affair with Sridevi, booze and Inquilab!

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    / June 25, 2011 / 2 Comments
    Lottery is big business in Kerala. On every major street, you will find old Ambassadors, tricycles and corner shops with beedi-smoking men selling tickets by the dozens. And you have men on Hercules cycles bringing lottery tickets to every Keralite’s doorstep. And they all have the same chant – Naale...

  6. `Amul’ Rahul, A Taste of VS

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    / April 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S Sudhir It would seem no one in the Congress is fond of Amul Butter. How else is it that the tag line of Amul, which reads `The taste of India’ escaped the collective consciousness of India’s grand old political party. By describing Rahul Gandhi as an Amul baby, `Very Smart’ Achuthanandan had...

  7. God’s own polarised country

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    / April 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S SudhirAnish Peter is heavy built. He also has a heavyweight voice. I meet him at a rather decrepit looking studio in Kottayam town, called Pyramid Recording Studio. Studios like this one are indeed part of the political pyramid atthe time of elections in Kerala. This one produces campaign material...

  8. Kerala’s musical chairs

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    / April 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S SudhirAs I pack my bags to travel to Kerala, I admit it is with a sense of meeting the known. Just about everyone expects the UDF to come to the party, after five years of LDF management. Compare this with elections next door, where the Karuna vs...

  9. Achuthanandan’s bid to defy history

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    / March 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   Across the Mullaperiyar dam, Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s fellow octagenarian, Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan is fighting the UDF and history, in what will be most certainly the last election of his political career. Kerala has religiously voted out every incumbent government since 1977 and therefore opinion polls and...

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