Nagarjuna Rao

A senior journalist with nearly four decades of experience across India and the Gulf, he holds an MCJ from Osmania University. He has worked with Deccan Chronicle, The Peninsula, and Gulf News. His writing blends clarity, wit, satire, and newsroom leadership across cinema, art, and political reporting.

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Rahul’s rules for the game

Rahul Gandhi does it again – bowls another no-ball of logic and follows it up with a long appeal. This time, the self-appointed umpire of morality questions Jay Shah’s elevation as ICC chairman, wondering aloud how someone who is not a cricketer can head the game’s highest body. He sounds genuinely offended, as if cricketing…

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Cloudy with no chance of rain

Delhi’s air-quality index (AQI) drifting in the 350-400 range is not a statistic – it is a lifestyle. For three straight years the capital has been wrapped in a toxic haze so opaque that even sunlight seems to need permission to shine. Hospitals are reporting rising admissions of women and children with respiratory distress; oncologists…

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When sixty meant old age

There was a time when a man of sixty looked every inch of it – silver hair, sagging frame, and a face that told the story of ration queues, monsoon fevers and the price of kerosene. Today’s sexagenarian, however, turns up at the airport in jeans and a smartwatch, returning from a yoga retreat in…

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