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  1. Why Vijay Sai is Reddy for politics

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    / May 2, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Vijay Sai Reddy is the man who has been described by the CBI as the brain behind the many business deals struck by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and has been named accused number two in the disproportionate assets case against Jagan. After being arrested on January 2, 2012, Vijay Sai...

  2. Is India hostage to Maoists?

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    / April 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The first collector of the newly-formed district of Sukma, Alex Paul Menon, clearly hadn’t read how his senior in the IAS, Vineel Krishna in Malkangiri district of Odisha was kidnapped last year. Following pretty much the same pattern of sending Maoists dressed as villagers, Alex, a 2006 batch IAS officer,...

  4. Future bombed

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    / March 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s clarification has failed to pacify me. After making a sweeping statement that “government schools breed naxalism and should be handed over to private players”, he has tried to do some damage-control, saying he was actually referring to “sick government schools in naxal-affected areas”. I would have...

  5. C for cat, E for elephant

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    / February 17, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This is a story from a trip in September 2009. Like errant schoolchildren ordered to keep quiet by the teacher, we sat silent, waiting in anticipation. I gesticulated `finger-on-the-lips’ to Pranav and Tejaswini, then five and six years old respectively, hoping the excitement of the moment wouldn’t make them react...

  6. 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...

  7. Hospitals in the ICU

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    / January 2, 2012 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir   The police escort was in the line of a verbal firing. I was at Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad, in the RMO’s room, where a convict brought in from Chanchalguda central prison for a medical check-up was bewildered, looking on in total confusion over what the...

  8. A marital vow on Telangana !

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    / July 26, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir The marriage invitation card caught my attention because it was shaped like a map, the outline of which is becoming increasingly familiar. It was a loud political proclamation of a deep, heartfelt passion. On the red card was printed `laggam pilupu’, or marriage invitation, and the details...

  9. Fire in the belly

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    / June 19, 2011 / 3 Comments
    “Telangana lo vanta, dilli lo manta” or “Cooking in Telangana, Fire in Delhi” was the slogan. But the heat of the June sun, the smoke and heat from the cooking fire around which they stood and the excitement of performing live before television cameras, was confusing the women party workers...

  10. Coz love is worth it

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    / February 14, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir   I was a little surprised when Muthupandian stopped outside the creche and gesticulated to me, saying you go inside and see, I will join you a little later. He was escorting us around Ananda Illam, a home for children affected and infected by HIV on the...

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