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  1. `Mullaperiyar dam is safe’

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    / May 4, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Kerala received a setback with the Supreme court appointed 5-member monitoring committee ruling that the 119-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is safe. This vindicates the stand taken by Tamilnadu. (read blog : Mullaperiyar – A sponsored hysteria) The only relief that Kerala has got is that the committee has agreed on a...

  2. Kerala logs on to Chandy

    Posted by Anil Philip
    / July 3, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Anil Philip   As I write this blog, I can see Oommen Chandy, the chief minister of Kerala, chairing a meeting with a couple of his ministers, few senior police officers and bureaucrats. But this is not a special privilege that I have because I am a journalist. Even...

  3. Kerala will never compromise on endosulfan

    Posted by Oommen Chandy
    / April 30, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Oommen ChandyIt is a long wait for the results of the assembly elections in Kerala, the first that it is so long in our state. We voted on April 13 and the results will be out on May 13. A shorter gap between polling and counting would have been...

  4. `Amul’ Rahul, A Taste of VS

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    / April 12, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S Sudhir It would seem no one in the Congress is fond of Amul Butter. How else is it that the tag line of Amul, which reads `The taste of India’ escaped the collective consciousness of India’s grand old political party. By describing Rahul Gandhi as an Amul baby, `Very Smart’ Achuthanandan had...

  5. Kerala set for a date with the EVM

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    / April 10, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S Sudhir   The men at the Chinese fishing net wouldn’t talk. “Money, money, give money, we talk,” said two of them in unison. “But I am not a tourist. I am a journalist,” I said in Malayalam, hoping to impress upon them that I wasn’t like the...

  6. LDF’s time is up

    Posted by Oommen Chandy
    / April 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Oommen Chandy Over the past few weeks, I have travelled to every nook and corner in each of the 14 districts of Kerala. And I can see wave building up in favour of the UDF. I am sure on April 13, people will vote out this corrupt LDF government....

  7. God’s own polarised country

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    / April 6, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S SudhirAnish Peter is heavy built. He also has a heavyweight voice. I meet him at a rather decrepit looking studio in Kottayam town, called Pyramid Recording Studio. Studios like this one are indeed part of the political pyramid atthe time of elections in Kerala. This one produces campaign material...

  8. Kerala’s musical chairs

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    / April 2, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By T S SudhirAs I pack my bags to travel to Kerala, I admit it is with a sense of meeting the known. Just about everyone expects the UDF to come to the party, after five years of LDF management. Compare this with elections next door, where the Karuna vs...

  9. Achuthanandan’s bid to defy history

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    / March 9, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   Across the Mullaperiyar dam, Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s fellow octagenarian, Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan is fighting the UDF and history, in what will be most certainly the last election of his political career. Kerala has religiously voted out every incumbent government since 1977 and therefore opinion polls and...

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