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  1. 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...

  2. BJP’s Laxman rekha on Laxman

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    / April 29, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Staying untrue to its tagline of `party with a difference’, the BJP acted no differently on Bangaru Laxman. Washing its hands off its former national president, the party said “the jail term awarded by the court in a bribery case is part of a legal process which does not involve...

  3. ESL Narasimhan stays as AP Governor

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    / April 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Governor ESL Narasimhan (read blogpost by Andhra Watch) has been re-appointed as Governor of Andhra Pradesh for a fresh term, in the face of opposition to him from Telangana politicians who accused him of sending anti-bifurcation reports to the Centre. A former head of Intelligence Bureau, Narasimhan was sent to Andhra...

  4. Lanco vs Wakf

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    / April 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Did Lanco Infratech grab the 100 acres of land at Manikonda on which it is building SEZ and residential property? Ponnam Prabhakar, Congress MP from Karimnagar, who has a running feud with L Rajagopal, founder-chairman of the company, is the latest to reiterate the accusation....

  5. 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...

  6. Will G K Pillai be new AP Governor?

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    / March 28, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Source : AP News Live Who will be next Governor of Andhra Pradesh? It is likely to be G K Pillai, the former Union Home Secretary. The present Governor Narasimhan’s tenure ended in January, but he is continuing till the Centre appoints his successor. Gopal Krishna Pillai is a former...

  7. All eyes on Kovur

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    / March 17, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Earlier this week, I was speaking to a senior leader of Telugu Desam who had just returned to Hyderabad after campaigning in Kovur in Nellore district for ten days for his party candidate S Chandramohan Reddy. “How does it look for you?” I asked. “Prasanna Kumar Reddy (who won on...

  8. Lessons from Lucknow for Hyderabad

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    / March 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In 2009, I was at an election meeting in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, waiting for Rahul Gandhi to arrive when I found Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Man Friday grumbling. Let us call him Mr X here. Mr X started talking about how meetings like these were a waste of YSR’s...

  9. Farming between two lines

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    / November 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir All through his growing up years and later, my father has enjoyed the reputation of being an ace at mathematics and logic in family circles, and would love to throw little `puzzle’ challenges to us. One that came back to me suddenly the other day was: How...

  10. On being Dravidian

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    / July 8, 2011 / 3 Comments
      Being of Dravidian origin, especially in the self-declared Aryan north of this country, can at times be hilarious. Most often it is not funny; people drag you into interminable arguments over who is superior. Of course, the whole thing has no factual basis, as geneticists have determined that there...

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