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  1. Will Sachin Tendulkar, MP take guard please?

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    / June 4, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This news did not feature on any TV news channel, certainly not in Delhi. Television reporters did not ask aam janta to react to this new Rajya Sabha MP. And no, it did not trend on Twitter either. Obviously, I am not talking of Sachin Tendulkar, whose oath-taking today was...

  2. The day belonged to Jaya and Jaya

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    / May 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Jayalalithaa’s photograph is what readers of most national dailies, irrespective of which city they lived in, woke up to this morning. The Tamilnadu department of Information and Public Relations had booked six pages in all newspapers, estimated to have cost  25 crores to the exchequer. The ads spoke of the...

  3. Spare us please. It isn’t funny

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    / May 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
    While in college, when I started freelancing in the late 80s, I used to write stories for `Children’s World’. A monthly magazine published by the Children’s Book Trust. An institution established in 1957 by the late Shankar Pillai, known as the patriarch of political cartooning in India. It was therefore...

  5. Roadblocks for Renuka’s cabinet berth

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    / March 25, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live The newly elected Rajya Sabha members from the state Chiranjeevi and Renuka Chowdary are tipped to get berths in the next cabinet expansion by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Chiranjeevi is mostly likely to get a Minister of State in the Union cabinet as per the...

  6. Congress risks, TDP rewards

    Posted by A. Saye Sekhar
    / March 19, 2012 / Leave a comment
    I don’t know if Palvai Govardhan Reddy remembers me or atleast an animated discussion with me at a newspaper office in 1994. Palvai, the also-ran type politico from Nalgonda district, is a loudmouth. Striking at the mighty and powerful within the Andhra Pradesh Congress has always been his claim to...

  7. Chiru wants to act with Tamannah

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    / March 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
      “Whether I do the 150th film will depend entirely on the story that will be narrated to me.” So said Megastar-turned-politician Chiranjeevi at the audio release function of his son Ram Charan’s film `Rachcha’. This even as there is speculation that Chiranjeevi will soon become a Rajya Sabha MP...

  8. TRS fishing in troubled waters

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The proposal of the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) to field Kesava Rao as a candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections is just an empty balloon being floated by K Chandrasekhar Rao to put pressure on the Congress that it renominate Kesava Rao for another term. Six seats are falling vacant...

  9. Operation successful, Patient dead

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    / December 30, 2011 / 3 Comments
    When Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh stepped out of the Rajya Sabha at 12:02 am on Friday, he noticed something red on his hands. Surprised initially, he discovered it was actually blood. He turned to Pranab Mukherjee, walking alongside and saw his hands were red too. A figure in white...

  10. The absent Elders

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    / September 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Priya V K Singh On 27th August, 2011, a historic debate took place in the Parliament. Bowing to the voice of the aam aadmi, Parliament discussed and debated the 3 issues referred to it by the government  on the insistence of the people — inclusion of lower bureaucracy in...

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