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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. When summer vacation meant Kozhikode

    Posted by Rama Menon
    / January 25, 2013 /
    When my cousin brother posted on Facebook that Kozhikode Railway Station was celebrating its 125th anniversary, I felt nostalgic and went back in time to my childhood in the 70s and 80s when summer holidays always meant a trip to my ancestral home in Kozhikode. Those days there was no direct train to...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. Kiran’s hand to mouth politics

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    / January 17, 2013 /
    Kiran Kumar Reddy has hit upon the formula to win elections. Or so he thinks. Convinced that the way to a man or woman’s vote in Andhra Pradesh is through his stomach, the chief minister has embarked on selling rice at one rupee a kg at PDS outlets. The pilot...

  6. Akbar’s right to defence

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    / January 17, 2013 / 6 Comments
    I am a tad surprised at the manner in which certain sections of the Bar questioned the propriety of Senior Advocate and former Advocate General DV Sitha Ram Murthy appearing for Akbaruddin Owaisi in the recent writ petition. It is strange that a set of lawyers raised the question in...

  7. Hell hath no fury like a Yeddy scorned

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    / November 30, 2012 /
    The BJP would be amused that at just about the same time that one of its stalwarts B S Yeddyurappa is bidding adieu to the party, another of its prodigal sons Kalyan Singh is knocking at its door in Lucknow. But while Kalyan is a spent force in the cesspool...

  8. Kiran baiter quits his MLA seat

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    / November 29, 2012 /
    Peddireddy Rama Chandra Reddy resigned from the Andhra Pradesh assembly today, since his demand that the chief minister should be replaced was not met by the Congress leadership. Reddy who has a long-running feud with Kiran Kumar Reddy (both hail from Chittoor district) had said he will resign by November...

  9. Jaya in Bangalore to get Cauvery water

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    / November 29, 2012 /
    At 3 pm today, the chief ministers of Tamilnadu and Karnataka will meet in Bangalore to discuss sharing the waters of the Cauvery river. This will be the first time in 15 years that the two CMs will meet on the issue. The meeting comes after the Supreme court caustically...

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