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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. Telangana marches into Hyderabad

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    / September 30, 2012 /
    It was a show of strength with thousands of Telangana supporters marching into Necklace Road in Hyderabad on Sunday. This came in the backdrop of the Centre refusing to take a decision on the contentious issue of statehood to Telangana, in the wake of protests from people of the other...

  3. T-talk goes off on a tangent

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    / September 17, 2012 /
    The pressure is beginning to tell. And tell in the language spoken by the leaders. On Sunday, addressing a meeting in Karimnagar, the otherwise soft-spoken leader of the Telangana Joint Action Committee (TJAC) Prof Kodandaram used the grammar of violence while making a point on statehood to the region. His...

  4. Seemandhra is indifferent to division of AP

    Posted by Konatham Dileep
    / June 18, 2012 / 4 Comments
    Telangana activists have time and again maintained that there is nothing called as a “United AP Movement” (Samaikyandhra Movement). The so called ‘movement’ that started on December 10th 2009 can at best be called an “Anti-Telangana Movement” propelled by Seemandhra Plutocrats. This stand has been vindicated by the results of...

  5. Yes to Narasimhan = No to Telangana?

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    / April 29, 2012 / 2 Comments
    There is however, no question mark in the minds of the Telangana supporter in Andhra Pradesh. The fact that Governor E S L Narasimhan’s term has been renewed, according to those in favour of bifurcation of the state, is a clear indication that the Centre is in no mood to...

  6. Who do you hold a beef for?

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    / April 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Twitter, where `outrage’ is more often than not, the dominant emotion, yesterday degenerated into verbal diarrhoea of the worst kind. The issue at the centre of it all was the Hyderabad Beef Festival, organised by a group of Dalit students at the Narmada Research Scholars (Ambedkar) Hostel on Osmania University...

  7. KCR to go the Chiranjeevi way?

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    / April 5, 2012 /
    Source : AP News Live K Chandrasekhar Rao is preparing to go the Chiranjeevi way. Reliable sources confirm that KCR has in principle agreed to merge Telangana Rashtra Samithi with Congress Party. KCR’s offer was made through a mediator to Congress high command during his recent stay in the national...

  8. Suicides, unfortunately a numbers game

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    / April 1, 2012 /
    The unfortunate spectre of suicides for the sake of a separate Telangana state returned to haunt India this week. Telangana agitators hoped the Centre would sit up and take note of young lives taking the extreme step, overwhelmed by emotion. But three deaths on Saturday went unnoticed as the media...

  9. 7 down, 17 to go in Andhra Pradesh

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    / March 21, 2012 /
    For a party that did not even have a candidate initially to winning the seat by 1800 votes is certainly an achievement. By winning an assembly seat which forms part of K Chandrasekhar Rao’s Mahbubnagar Lok Sabha constituency, the BJP has punctured the TRS claim of being the sole spokesperson...

  10. TRS fishing in troubled waters

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    / March 11, 2012 /
    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...

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