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  1. 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...

  2. VS sidelined by fellow comrades

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    / April 9, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Pinarayi Vijayan ended up having the upper hand against V S Achuthanandan yet again. The former Chief minister failed to find a place in the CPI(M) politburo. “I have nothing to say,” the blunt speaking politician said as he came out of the venue of the CPI-M leadership meet. VS...

  3. 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...

  4. Over 85 % polling in Piravom in Kerala

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    / March 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
      Kerala certainly showed the way on Saturday when a record 85.6 per cent of the electorate voted in the Piravom Assembly constituency in Ernakulam district of Kerala. The byelection which was caused due to the death of TM Jacob, the food and civil supplies minister in the Oommen Chandy...

  5. Kerala on `Pause’ mode, 2011-16

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    / May 13, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir My guess is that V S Achuthanandan will sleep nicely tonight. Here is a man, ridiculed for his age by a man who has nothing but his surname to boast of, giving the UDF a run for its money and the chief minister’s chair in the...

  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. Torture politics of the LDF

    Posted by Ramesh Chennithala
    / April 11, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Ramesh Chennithala   The trend kicked off by the LDF of taking people into police custody and torturing them to death has not yet ceased even at the time of stepping out from the government. The custody death of a man in Trivandrum that happened recently substantiates the inhumane...

  8. Kerala set for a date with the EVM

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    / April 10, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S Sudhir   The men at the Chinese fishing net wouldn’t talk. “Money, money, give money, we talk,” said two of them in unison. “But I am not a tourist. I am a journalist,” I said in Malayalam, hoping to impress upon them that I wasn’t like the...

  9. LDF’s time is up

    Posted by Oommen Chandy
    / April 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Oommen Chandy Over the past few weeks, I have travelled to every nook and corner in each of the 14 districts of Kerala. And I can see wave building up in favour of the UDF. I am sure on April 13, people will vote out this corrupt LDF government....

  10. 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...

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