TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
There is a limit to tomfoolery, even in politics. I was, like millions of Indians, scouting for details about the eerie news of Chinese creeping into Ladakh across the Line of Actual Control last month. Not that there was much. What all I got was a miserable bit of piece that too official feed, as every media reported the same lines. Not even the overseas press corps that are often more enterprising and perceptive than local, had much to say, be it the BBC or the AFP. But then I was being naive, or, are our rulers naive?
The inimitable Renuka Chowdhary has done a world of good for the pub business when she batted for women, as she always does for matters on gender parity. Reacting to the reported directive of excise officials to turn women out of pubs after 10pm, she suggested that for a change men went home and women [...]
All those issues connected with lifestyle and social mores are best left to be sorted out in cooperation with societal icons and social leaders. Banning them is undemocratic and ineffectual.
There is something wrong with our country’s collective psyche. It’s sickening. Neighbour after neighbour ill treats us and get away with it. The country’s ruling class, the Congress and its allies, make pitiable motions of protest, such as summoning the envoy and registering the protests!
The bard who said crown is thorn knew what he was talking. No chief minister of Andhra Pradesh was called upon to bear a bigger thorn than N Kiran Kumar Reddy. He presides over an out of shape Cabinet which is not his own. He suffers a festering wound called Telangana which is not his [...]
Politicians have begun scurrying about for safe seats and safer political platforms as the general elections are less than a year away.
TDP continues to lose its senior leaders and many cadres though it generated a glow of confidence after Naidu’s record-breaking padayatra.
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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Reporter’s diary: Waste not flowers
A flower is most beautiful when it is in the garden, like a deer or a lamb seen in its natural habitat. If this wisdom is known to the mayor and the GHMC, they would not have wasted several hundred lovely flowers at the function declaring the GHMC’s plan to open 14 biodiversity parks on [...]
Reporter’s diary: Bravo, Naidu
TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu is a visionary. Few will doubt this considering what he did to give Hyderabad a modern face, and many of his welfare schemes are now implemented (of course, renamed after Rajiv Gandhi or Indira Gandhi). But many could not understand his logic of asking for a ban of `500 and `1,000 [...]
Reporter’s diary: Who’s this footloose at CCS?
For some time now, staff in the powerful central crime station are being cowed down by a sada home guard who is said to be close to a senior IPS officer. CCS staff whisper that he is the eyes and ears of the officer and therefore gets a free run. Recently, when three ruffians who [...]
Reporter’s diary: Jubilee Hills show
Talking of thick skinned civic officials, one could take a look at the picture above. Here the building contractors of the rich and the mighty make insulting gestures at law and the GHMC. It seems to say, “Right to walk? Forsooth! Building rules? My Right Foot!”
Reporter’s diary: GHMC, practice what you preach
So the GHMC preaches about how cleanliness is next to godliness and has all sorts of clean and green quotes in every other corner of its office and parks. But if you walk into the head office, you’ll wonder what stops the staff from practicing what they preach. The entire office is permeated with the [...]
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