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Chiranjeevi visit surprises villagers

Chiranjeevi's emotional comments about his surprise visit to his birth place, Mogalturu in the middle of the night after completing his roadshow in West Godavari has been covered extensively in the press today. But...

opinion by Rajender | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Pensions: Tales from the precipice

One fine morning four and a half years ago, hope returned to 75-year-old Rangaraveni Sayavva, door-delivered in the form of an old-age pension. For the frail widow weighed down by ill health, it didn’t take long to realise that this unexpected aid, though not a bounty,...

created by Rajender | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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YSR turns to urban issues

After spending the morning in Ugadi festivities, chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy hit the road in the afternoon, touring constitutencies in and around the city. His campaign accordingly turned urban in contrast with the districtly rural tone of his speeches on the first...

created by Rajender | 3 years ago
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YSR plays the "rainmaker"

Chevella/Vikarabad: As chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy began his campaign opening speech at Chevella on this searing afternoon, a farmer watching the proceedings from a hillock adjacent to the venue pointed...

created by Rajender | 3 years ago
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Social justice on popular demand!

The more the things change the more they seem to remain the same. But at a time when America has elected its first African American (read as black) President, such cynical misgivings about “Change” are clearly out of fashion. Closer home in Andhra Pradesh we have the...

created by Rajender | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Men that matter

It is decision time once again as Andhra Pradesh goes to poll this summer. In what promises to the most keenly contested elections in the history of the state, welfare agendas are dominating the pollscape like never before. Taking a cue from the populist measures of the...