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  1. What’s Hindu about these %&*#?

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    / July 29, 2012 / 3 Comments
    `We the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a moralistic Talibanisque goonda Republic, and to thrash all citizens who dare to party and have fun ….’ This is the 2012 version of the Preamble to the Constitution of India that is being rewritten on the streets...

  2. Jagan’s Tirumala visit creates controversy

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    / May 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
    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...

  3. Fast to demand Yesudas’s entry into Guruvayur temple

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    / April 18, 2012 / 1 Comment
    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...

  4. Minority is in majority in Kerala

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    / April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    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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    / April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    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...

  6. The buck stops nowhere in the Defence ministry

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    / March 27, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Arackaparambil Kurien Antony came to the Rajya Sabha well prepared, his sleeves rolled up, like always. Those are heavy sleeves for he wears his honesty on them. A reputation built in Kerala’s murky political backwaters where comparisions with the old fox, the late Karunakaran always helped Antony shine bright. He...

  7. TOI turning into a Hindu?

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    / February 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Source : AP News Live The pushy Times of India cannot be expected to keep quiet when its cultivated image was called into question by a staid competitor like The Hindu. TOI responded to The Hindu’s brainy teasers with its ‘information is not knowledge’ campaign, which surprisingly is neither witty...

  8. Mukesh Ambani is not Ratan Tata’s son

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    / January 27, 2012 / 3 Comments
    The terrible summer has clearly arrived early in Chennai. For what else can explain the sheer kolaveri taking place between the Mahavishnu of Mount Road and the Old Lady of Bori Bunder. The Hindu vs The Times of India sledging in Madras nalla Madras is more rivetting than the Agneepath Down Under. It...

  9. Hindu hits back at the TOI

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    / January 26, 2012 / 1 Comment
    It is a no-holds barred war out there between `The Times of India’ and `The Hindu’ in Chennai. TOI fired the first salvo, indirectly accusing the Hindu of producing news that puts everyone to sleep. The Mahavishnu of Mount Road has now hit back. And how ! Watch the two...

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