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  1. The different faces of the Telangana protest

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    / January 28, 2013 / 3 Comments
    The Anna Hazare of the Telangana movement at Indira Park in Hyderabad Spandana, 19, first year college student raising pro-Telangana slogans. A very talented and graceful dancer Gautam, a B.Com student getting `ready for battle’ at the protest venue Mamata, a government employee at the protest venue. She is also...

  2. The Owaisis arrest – spreading hate among Muslims?

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    / January 25, 2013 / 3 Comments
    Written by the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners The last fortnight or so have witnessed high political drama in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh that has been rife with the speculations of the formation of a Telengana State. Meanwhile there is also news of heavy lobbying from the...

  3. Why ‘Vishwaroopam’ should be released

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    / January 25, 2013 / 3 Comments
    By the time you read this, the Madras High Court may have intervened to lift the suspension of the screening of ‘Vishwaroopam’, the Kamal Haasan starrer in Tamil Nadu for 15 days. If it does, it will not be a moment too soon. This patently illegitimate step of the Tamil...

  4. Homosexual Pride

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    / January 13, 2013 /
    A few days ago I saw a fairly attractive couple, braced with infants strapped to their torsos, absorbed in shopping for infants’ items in GVK mall! The only difference was they were both men. Two daddies with their two babies. Another scene at KBR Park in Hyderabad. A group of...

  5. Jyothi – one step closer

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    / January 13, 2013 /
    By Simran Bhui and Sujay Suresh In late December, a young 23-year-old girl (whose name her father revealed was Jyoti) was fighting a very difficult battle with death. She would either enter the safe haven of life, or struggle with the demons of death. It’s in times like these that we...

  6. Akbar Owaisi belongs in the slammer

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    / January 11, 2013 / 3 Comments
    I am sure most of us have seen the inflammatory speech by Akbaruddin Owaisi, the MLA from Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad, as I have. One just needs to type ‘Akbar’ into the dialogue box and YouTube does the rest, throwing up the links to the infamous speech in a matter of...

  7. Decriminalising Parliament

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    / January 11, 2013 /
    With the public gaze resting so determinedly on politicians involved in crimes against women, some political parties have announced that they will not henceforth field such candidates. Some well meaning social activists have filed PILs in the Supreme Court, seeking suspension of MPS and MLAs with cases of crimes against...

  8. Sublime Trichur Brothers

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    / November 28, 2012 /
    An experience in the exquisite. Classicism is celebrated here and at a time when the art is going through a redefining moment, it was an awesome evening at Kalasagaram listening to the Trichur Brothers who with the concert have appeared at every premier institution of the genre in the city...

  9. Are we a democracy or a zamindari?

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    / November 1, 2012 / 2 Comments
    After a similar episode involving Roads and Buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao in February this year, now it is the turn of Transport minister and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana in whose house there is a wedding. This is a case of extravagance and blatant misuse of public funds and public...

  10. Man tweets about Karti Chidambaram, gets arrested

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    / October 31, 2012 / 2 Comments
    After the Chinmayi incident, one more arrest related to tweeting. A small scale industrialist was arrested on the charge of posting `offensive’ messages on the social networking site Twitter against Karti Chidambaram, son of the Union Finance minister. The man was subsequently let off on bail. Karti had filed a...

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