Nadu, the two main parties – the DMK and the AIADMK – have announced their candidates. Ten takeaways from the list of candidates announced by the mainline regional parties in Tamil Nadu. […]
The line-up in Tamil Nadu
Ex-CBI Laxminarayana joins Pawan Kalyan
On Sunday, former IPS officer VV Laxminarayana ended weeks of suspense on which political party he will join. Pawan Kalyan welcomed the 1990 batch officer of the Maharashtra cadre to the Jana […]
Modi’s #MainBhiChowkidar narrative
In 2014, as the Prime ministerial candidate of the BJP, he turned Mani Shankar Aiyer’s “Chaiwaala” jibe at him to his advantage by organising chai pe charcha all over the country and […]
Chandrababu Naidu kicks off TDP campaign
It has been a tradition in the Telugu Desam to kickstart the election campaign from the temple town of Tirupati. With elections in Andhra Pradesh on 11 April, Chandrababu Naidu accompanied by […]
Rahul Gandhi in the Peninsula?
Over the past 48 hours or so, an image showing Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi has been shared extensively over social media by Congress leaders, cadre and supporters in Karnataka. […]
After praise from Modi, mosquitoes to join BJP
By Tenali Rama Nearly 8400 mosquitoes from the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh have decided to join the BJP after its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi publicly thanked them for biting Congress […]
When NASA landed in Crater Hyderabad
By Tenali Rama Is it an UFO? Or is it a set created for Krrish 4, wondered people in this southern city of India. An inter-planetary probe, launched by NASA to […]
Mind your language !
“God ! I already feel in Mallu land. Flight full of veshti men talking Mohanlal Malayalam !!!” This status message on facebook by Chennai-based Gina Joseph caught my attention. I was reminded […]
Breathless, Kashyap takes your breath away
Arvind Bhatt won the National badminton championship at Rohtak in Haryana this January. He defeated P Kashyap 21-13, 21-17 in the 2011 finals. That’s what the records book will tell you. But […]
`Your wife is naked’
A socially conscious friend who has been a lecturer in a Christian college for women in Hyderabad for over 20 years says it is heartening that 75 per cent of her students […]
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