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  2. A for Andhra, B for bandh

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    / July 22, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Andhra Watch   Today is the third day Telangana is bandh this July. It is also the seventh demonstration of people power (you may also choose to call it muscle power) in the state by the votaries of bifurcation as the menu also included rail roko, road blockade and...

  3. Take Telangana to Delhi

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    / July 16, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Uma SudhirThe student was quite agitated. She was accusing Nizamabad MP Madhu Yaskhi Goud, and members of his ilk, of playing with the lives of students by organising frequent bandhs, hartals, rail roko for the cause of Telangana. “We lost precious sessions last academic year. You want to agitate....

  4. Telangana’s manufacturing losses

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    / July 11, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By M S Hussain   `The Hindu Business Line’ reports in its 11 July edition that Hinduja Foundries Limited has cancelled its proposal to set up a greenfield castings factory in Toopran in Medak district, because of the ‘Telangana problem’. Instead of a new plant at Toopran, the company is planning...

  5. Hyderabad supports Telangana

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    / July 9, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Narasimha Reddy   The recent 48-hour bandh on 5-6 July was a huge success. Media reports have shown that the bandh was complete and peaceful. Interestingly, Hyderabad also shut itself down. People preferred to stay indoors. Significantly, this has happened voluntarily, without any apparent enforcement.   Even small and...

  6. A lesson from Chandigarh for Telangana

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    / July 8, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan   A major issue preventing the formation of Telangana is the wrangling over Hyderabad. People of Telangana have made it clear that they want Hyderabad to be the capital of the state. Those from Seemandhra who have a huge emotional and financial investment in Hyderabad, would...

  7. Telangana Rail roko cancelled

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    / July 7, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Upset over the public furore over the 48-hour Telangana bandh and the lack of political response from the UPA government, the Telangana JAC has decided to put off the two day  rail roko and the Feast on streets programme on Sunday.    The Telangana leaders are now considering moving the...

  8. I am at `Ground Zero’

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    / July 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir   There is a shower of stones from across the `border’. And the sound of gunfire booms in the air trying to scare away the `attackers’. There is smoke bellowing from the teargas shells. Everyone is running helter-skelter, tears in eyes. Doesn’t this seem rather like the...
    Posted in Telangana
    Tagged agitation, ground zero

  9. Unravelling the Congress mind on Telangana

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    / July 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
      By T S Sudhir   “If you people had not resigned, we could have discussed. Now things are no longer in my hands. It is now with the Speaker.” This is what Pranab Mukherjee told Telangana MPs who met him on Wednesday two days after having submitted their resignations. ...

  10. The evolution of protest

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    / July 5, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Vijay Marur   Protest is a birth right. I totally agree. And having understood the Telangana imbroglio I truly empathise with those who feel cheated. And I have done everything in my strength to support the cause. After all, I am a Hyderabadi by upbringing. And my wife is...
    Posted in Telangana
    Tagged agitation, protest

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