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politics

Telangana or United Andhra Pradesh?

December 25, 2009

Should the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh be broken to pave way for separate Telangana, Costal Andhra and Rayalaseema? This is a much discussed topic in media since a month or so. Currently, most of the so called ‘Elected Leaders’ throughout the state are busy submitting their resignations to respective constitutional institution starting from grass [...]

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26/11 – Are we solving it right?

November 22, 2009

In the early days people fought for independence because of slavery. Later on they fought for a similar independence because of religions/linguistics/communities. And now we have come very long way. Many are still striving for such variations in independence even after knowing that it has almost saturated. In fact this saturation has exceeded to an [...]

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EAMCET counseling hiccups

August 2, 2009

Last week, there was a technical outage that halted the EAMCET counseling in Andhra Pradesh, India. Servers were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of traffic at the AP State Council of Higher Education (APSCHE ) and now the seats allocation process for students seeking admission into various engineering and medical colleges has been rescheduled. Though [...]

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Love for Industrialization

July 22, 2009

After a long gap of 25 years my parents were fond of getting back into farming lands. Especially my dad has been way too keen to dirty his hands in soil. Though we hail from a farming background, my parents moved to Bangalore from Chittoor. There were a number of reasons for this move. Very [...]

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Negative Inflation – my retrospect

July 20, 2009

There is one question that is troubling me the most since my exams got over a couple of weeks back. Why are the prices hitting sky and beyond even though our economy is running under negative inflation? I am not an economist but still the curiosity to understand what is going on around us rings [...]

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Please stop throwing shoes!

April 28, 2009

If you think hurling shoes at politicians is the way to express your anguish, please stop. Our great leaders don’t deserve your shoe or slipper! You are the ’sole’ loser at the end of the day. A pair of ordinary ‘paragon’ chappals will cost no less than INR 50/- and I fail to understand why [...]

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Redefining the Electoral Rules

March 28, 2009

There has been a long history of candidates contesting elections in India from ‘Multiple Constituencies’. This has happened in the past and this time it is no different. It is up to you to either blame or praise the Indian constitution for providing such a provision for candidates to contest elections from multiple constituencies. In [...]

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IPL 2009 and beyond

March 25, 2009

Now it is confirmed that Indian Premier League (IPL) will be held outside India for this season. The schedule has been announced as well for the season 2009. Even I am disappointed due to change in venues from India to South Africa. Is this move an obvious one? Were there any open options available with [...]

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Indian Politics – Part 2

March 5, 2009

Though I got a moderate response to my first article on politics, I am continuing to write more. Last time I went on writing too much on our ‘Aam Aadmi’. Today the focus is on our so called ‘Leaders’. Now almost all parties are busy with final tweaks to their manifestos for the upcoming General [...]

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Indian Politics and FreakOnomics

February 7, 2009

General elections for Indian parliament is just round the corner. All major political parties are struggling hard to come up with an election strategy to get the blessings of the voter. Every party focuses on wooing the common man. I have a number of points in my mind at this point of time, may be [...]

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