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  1. IPL has a perception issue. Fix it.

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    / May 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Every morning, one of my co-walkers in the neighbourhood park – a senior citizen – describes in vivid detail the previous night’s IPL match. Since most of the matches this season strangely are last over – sometimes even last ball – finishes, it is a lot of excited chatter. But...

  2. Is Aamir Khan showing a mirror to mainstream media?

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    / May 6, 2012 / 2 Comments
    As a television journalist, that was my first reaction. Is he doing my job? Has he taken it upon himself to focus on issues such as female foeticide (in the first episode) and perhaps will delve into equally important subjects like the pressure cooker education system, corporal punishment, farmers suicides,...

  3. Maoist maneater on the prowl

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    / May 4, 2012 / Leave a comment
    “Yes, absolutely,” said a senior police officer when I asked him if he would use the phrase to describe the situation in Chhattisgarh and Odisha. “What Chhattisgarh government does not realise is that the Maoists are breathing down Raipur’s neck. So many of the districts around the state capital are...

  4. Guilty till proven innocent

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    / April 19, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Last night Mumbai’s Joint commissioner of police Himanshu Roy was on CNN-IBN, to talk about the Vijay Palande-Simran Sood duo, accused of four murders. No doubt this story has been a talking point in Mumbai over the last few days, with newspapers devoting a significant share of newsprint to how...

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

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    / April 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “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....

  6. A Kiran of hope in the fight against liquor mafia

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    / April 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    If Kiran Kumar Reddy claims he is inspired by Shahrukh Khan in `Baazigar’, I would be inclined to believe him. Because `kuch paane ke liye kuch khona padta hai‘. Kiran lost round one of the battle to Andhra Pradesh Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayana when he was reportedly armtwisted to transfer...

  7. 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...

  8. Who runs Andhra Pradesh? Hic !

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    / April 6, 2012 / 2 Comments
    The chief of the Special Investigation Team probing the liquor scam, K Srinivas Reddy, is at sea. Literally because he is now IG of the Coastal Security Wing. For all practical purposes, worse than a loopline posting, where the 1994 batch IPS officer can spend all day sitting by the...

  9. A confused Congress in Andhra Pradesh

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    / April 1, 2012 / 3 Comments
    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...

  10. Inside the dressing room

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    / March 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Sachin spoke about it the other day. That what is spoken inside it should stay there. Rahul too mentioned the D-word the day before. That he will miss being a part of it. Both were referring to the `dressing room’. For long, cricket fans have used this term, without bothering...