For years, 1 November used to be celebrated on a grand scale as Andhra Pradesh Formation Day. For it was the day the state came into existence in 1956, as part of […]
Celebrating 1 November as AP Formation Day defies logic
T S Sudhir
Print, TV, Digital media Journalist for over 27 years. Political commentator, Documentary filmmaker, Satirist. Author of Badminton player Saina Nehwal's biography (2012).
Yummy honour for Hyderabad from UNESCO !
It was in June that the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) senior officials were engaged in the process of applying on behalf of Hyderabad to the UNESCO creative cities network in the […]
Why does the Telangana Education department act in an arbitrary manner?
Schools and colleges in Telangana were expected to open after the Dussehra break (that began on 28 September) on 14 October. But anticipating that the bus strike in the state would hamper […]
Jagan’s order on media ill-advised
On the face of it, there is nothing wrong with YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s decision to empower department secretaries to sue media houses for defamatory, baseless and false reports. Because the cornerstone of […]
Telangana tragedy : 4 members of a family succumb to dengue in two weeks
On Wednesday, a one-day old baby boy was taken back home from Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabad. But what was heart-rending was the sight of the newborn travelling with his dead mother by […]
IIT Hyderabad student’s suicide note should trouble us all
On Tuesday afternoon, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad sent out a rather clinical media statement informing that a third year B.Tech student had passed away. Giving no details about how it was […]
Telangana RTC strike : Set aside your ego, think about the commuter
Let this be said. Both the Telangana government and the RTC unions do not have the interests of the commuters at heart. For 25 days now, both sides have been obsessed with […]
Sorry Sujith. We failed you
Sujith’s grave at Fatima Pudur cemetery in Trichy wasn’t an inch more than 5 feet by 3 feet. The depth far, far less than the 85 feet he had fallen to inside […]
Let Sujith’s tragedy be a wake-up call for India. Secure the borewells
Just like Subhasree’s death put pressure on the politicians and the film stars in Tamil Nadu to eschew erection of banners and hoardings alongside roads and on traffic medians, it is important […]
Telangana blames Dengue on Elections and Model Code of Conduct
The Telangana High court fumed at the state’s inability to control the dengue crisis. Coming down heavily on the administration, it said, “People are dying right, left and centre, the situation is […]
Huzurnagar defeat likely to end Uttam Reddy’s innings as Telangana Congress chief
Huzurnagar may well write Uttam Kumar Reddy’s political epitaph for now. Under his leadership as Telangana Congress chief, the Congress could not prevent the TRS from coming to power for a second […]
With two stunning bypoll victories, EPS blows victory bigil
Even as all eyes were on the BJP-Shiv Sena’s fairly comfortable victory in Maharashtra and the cliffhanger in Haryana, Tamil Nadu decided to surprise. Both the byelection results went in favour of […]
Present Telangana RTC is past, says KCR but what about future of employees
As predicted in Filter Kaapi yesterday, the result of the Huzurnagar byelection has impacted the RTC strike. Striking a strident note after the TRS emphatic victory, Telangana Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao […]
CPS Exit Poll : TRS to win Huzurnagar
Centre for Psephology Studies predicts that the TRS will win the byelection in Huzurnagar. The seat was won in 2018 by the Congress.
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