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  1. Retire a year late in Kerala

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    / March 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Kerala has raised the retirement age of state government employees from 55 to 56. Justifying the decision, Finance minister K M Mani said, “We are the only state where state government employees retire at age 55, but given the life expectancy, which is the highest in the country at 74...

  2. Why should I pay?

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    / March 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    I have never dealt with BP Acharya. I don’t know and I don’t really care whether he was corrupt, whether he was competent or whether he was merely a clown. But to those who know me that should not come as a surprise. I have spent most of my professional...

  3. AP websites under attack

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    / February 21, 2012 / Leave a comment
    After 21 Andhra Pradesh government websites were hacked last week, more attempts were made to hack more websites over the weekend. The IT ministry says these attempts were made from Jakarta, Algeria and Turkey.  Fortunately, not much damage was done in the second wave of attempted hacking and many of...

  4. Who wants to be a water carrier? 23000 applicants

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    / February 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is the story of the other India that is a constant at employment exchanges across the country. `The Tribune‘ has a fascinating story from the Sector 26 Recruit Training Centre of the Chandigarh Police. The candidates are appearing for the Class IV post of water carriers in the Indian...

  5. Scope for a new centrist alternative

    Posted by Sridhar Subramaniam
    / October 10, 2011 / 4 Comments
    In 2014, India will go to the polls to elect a new government. This is going to be a watershed event as it will determine which direction India will head in the decades ahead.   All these years, we have only seen one party, Congress ruling the roost except for...

  6. Why PPP has become a dirty word

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    / September 15, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Many moons ago, in the early years of the last decade, N Chandrababu Naidu, then chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, found a new buzzword (clearly picked up from one of the fancy-pants consultants hired by the GoAP) to drive investment in the State: Public-Private Partnership. Mr. Naidu’s administration fronted two...

  7. Can the hungry go on a hunger strike?

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    / August 21, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Arundhati Roy Our country is poised at a dangerous place right now for many reasons. There are all kinds of battles for supremacy. There are real resistances, there are theatrical and false resistances, revolutions from the top, revolutions from the bottom. And sometimes all of this is interpreted by...

  8. Blame the government, not the police

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    / August 11, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By M V Bhaskara Rao   I write this at a time when the police force is under fire from all sides, it would appear. The Supreme Court has said those police officers who indulge in fake encounters should be hanged. The police action in Maharashtra today where men in...

  9. Who says there is a problem?

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    / May 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Uma Sudhir   Everyone laughed out loud when Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council member K Nageswar shared the response he got to a question he raised in the House.   Question a. Whether it is a fact that old age people are facing problems in Andhra Pradesh ? Question b. If...

  10. A difficult century

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    / March 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Kiran Kumar Reddy There have been too many speed breakers in my first 100 days in office as chief minister of Andhra Pradesh but I am undeterred. I believe these are passing clouds and will pass by in the next three to six months. Just like when we suffer...

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