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  1. Mum is the word

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    / April 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is as if the ruling political establishment has taken a collective decision to press `mute’. The plumbers too have overnight turned an efficient lot and there are no credible leaks from North or South Block on what’s on the Congress mind as far as India’s next president is concerned....

  2. 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...

  3. Email of 258 Muslims under survelliance in Kerala?

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    / January 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    If the same had happened in Karnataka or Gujarat, there would have been a national furore by now. A Malayalam daily `Madhyamam’ has alleged that email of 258 prominent Muslims are being tapped by the intelligence wing of the Kerala police. The chief minister has now ordered a probe into...

  4. Imran Khan, bowled by the system

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    / January 8, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir I wondered if I would have been able to wear such a ready grin if I had been in Imran’s shoes. Terribly wronged by the system and there was no one to even say `sorry, we regret what happened’. Imran was telling me he has been shortlisted...

  5. My name is Rayeesuddin and I am not a terrorist

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    / December 7, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir “Will they give me a character certificate, ma’am?” It was an earnest question and I was surprised. Here I was telling this young man that he is going to be paid three lakh rupees as compensation by the Andhra Pradesh government for having been wrongly implicated after...

  6. Sonia goes to jail

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    / June 5, 2011 / 3 Comments
    I knew the little story I wanted to tell hardly stood a chance with all national television channels obsessively focussing on the drama on Ramlila Grounds in Delhi, the night before and the morning after. And yet I knew that tell the story I must. Because the picture stayed in...

  7. Whose baby is she?

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    / June 2, 2011 / 3 Comments
    It is not so often that I feel shocked and close to tears during my reporting assignments. But on Thursday at the Nampally courts in Hyderabad when I saw Papalal burst out in anger and then break down, a defeated man, I felt it is not so easy to stand...

  8. `Your wife is naked’

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    / April 15, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir A socially conscious friend who has been a lecturer in a Christian college for women in Hyderabad for over 20 years says it is heartening that 75 per cent of her students now are Muslims girls. “More and more of them are also wearing the burqa,” she...

  9. Swami and friend

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    / January 18, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir   “You tell the world beta that we are not terrorists, that we can never be terrorists.’’ An almost vehement plea from the mother of the young man who is being credited with causing a change of heart  in Swami Aseemanand, leading to his reported confession before investigating...

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