1. I am a Brahmin but he is not a Reddy

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    “I am a Brahmin and I am the Congress general secretary,” said Rahul Gandhi during a review meeting of the abysmal results in the Uttar Pradesh elections, after the Brahmin lobby reportedly tried to pin the blame the debacle on the party’s aggressive wooing of the minorities and other castes....
  2. KCR to go the Chiranjeevi way?

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    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...
  3. A confused Congress in Andhra Pradesh

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    After the last round of byelections in Andhra Pradesh, where the Congress drew a blank, a senior non-Congress leader from the state was asked by a member of the Congress High command in Delhi, what he thought of the future of the Congress in Andhra Pradesh. “Only the final rites...
  4. Let’s form Andhrandhra

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    By Raamesh Gowri Raghavan Andhra Pradesh politics has turned radioactive over the past one and a half years (perhaps because of the uranium deposits discovered in Pulivendula). Angels will baulk and fools will rush into it – as our Harvard-educated P. Chidambaram can testify. So why am I getting into...
  5. Kadapa, where records are broken

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    By Vijay Marur   It’s not that YSR was the first Chief Minister accused of being corrupt. And not at all that he will be the last. But better people than me have acknowledged that YSR with the help of his son took wealth assimilation to new and greater heights....
  6. Watering down the smoking habit

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    By T S Sudhir T G Venkatesh, industrialist-turned-politician and MLA from Kurnool, is almost like a king in those parts. And locals say, a brave one at that, given that very few industrialists have ventured into investing in this part of Andhra Pradesh. His Rayalseema Alkalies is one of the...