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  1. Use chilli powder on police, says CPM leader

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    / June 6, 2012 / Leave a comment
    This is taking its fascination for the colour red a bit too far. Kerala CPI(M) state committee member M V Jayarajan asked party workers to store water mixed with chilli powder to counter police if they continued to “harass” them under the pretext of probe. “CPI-M activists should store water...

  2. The UPA government of Italy?

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    / April 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Rome wasn’t built in a day. In the case of the Government of Italy, it took a little over two months to put adequate pressure on the Government of India, for it to deliver a shocker in the Supreme Court today. And a shock so startling that even the court...

  3. Minority is in majority in Kerala

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    / April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Last year around this time, I spent a day with Oommen Chandy while he was campaigning for himself in his Puthupally constituency in Kottayam district. Chandy is an affable man, has no airs, is very approachable and unlike politicians of other states who flaunt their black cats as a status...

  4. Chandy inducts `minority’ ministers, BJP calls for Kerala hartal

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    / April 12, 2012 / Leave a comment
    It is dawn-to-dusk hartal in Kerala today. Why? Because the BJP does not approve of the UDF “succumbing” to IUML pressure and giving the party a fifth berth in the Cabinet. The Hindu Nair community also has protested against “bowing to minorities”. IUML MLA M Ali will be sworn in...

  5. During earth hour, Chandy had a candle light dinner

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    / April 2, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Here is a man who practises what he preaches. During Earth Hour on March 31, between 830 and 930 pm, Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy shut off the lights at his home and decided to have a candle light dinner with his wife. Proof of the pudding is in the...

  6. Water for Tamilnadu, Safety for Kerala

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    / December 1, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Oommen Chandy The stability of Mullaperiyar dam has always been a source of anxiety in Kerala. However, in the past few days anxiety has given way to panic. The immediate cause of this panic is the repeated tremors experienced in the vicinity of the Mullaperiyar dam. There have been...

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