The answer to the title’s question seems to be yes if we go by what follows. A 3-col. story in today’s Indian Express drew my attention to pen this piece. The news goes like this. An elderly couple, Sayamma and Gangaram, living in Raykur village in Nizamabad district, were regularly visiting a court in Bodhan…
Many senior citizens including this writer are nostalgic with cricket which became a part of their life as indispensable as a mobile phone for the present generation. The old are not only refusing to die but also unable to decline the game of cricket. What started as a five-day match for all those who led…
For over 50 years, this writer used to read one newspaper fully without fail. However, over a decade, after retirement, he made it a point to read invariably three well-established age-old Indian English newspapers in physical form. They have their own standards of professionalism with a good amount of impartiality though one cannot say that…
For decades, the world has seen the United States as a dreamland for visionaries, a wonderland for adventurers, and even a Disneyland for children and the young at heart. It was a land where aspirations turned into reality, where ambition met opportunity, and where success stories inspired countless others to follow. In the 1970s, a…
The newly appointed VC Sri Ghanta Chakrapani held a high-profile job in Telangana Public Service Commission in the previous government and is presently rewarded with the post of Vice Chancellor in the university where he served as a professor before joining the service commission. He holds a doctorate and hails from the journalism profession and…
Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, while criticizing KCR and his family, questioned why they accused him of promoting family rule. He argued that his brothers assist him purely out of a service motive without holding official posts. However, he alleged that KCR and his family are hindering the development of his constituency, raising doubts about whether…
It appears that the month of December is jinxed for India. Otherwise, how would one explain our country losing two great Prime Ministers in the last month of their respective years of departure from this world. With Manmohan Singh, the financial guru and a political sishya of PV Narasimha Rao, passing away at a ripe…
Let me start this with a disclaimer up front that I hold no brief for Allu Arjun, popularly known as AA nor am I a fan of him. This helps my readers to read this without bias. Having seen Pushpa1, I was eagerly waiting for the next Pushpa2 because I was eager to know how…
Kalwakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao’s (KCR) silence has worked out quite effectively in keeping Revanth Reddy, in particular, on tenterhooks so much so that his name comes out by default in every speech of his in public fora. Like Ramajapam, KCR japam too became a norm for Congress leaders wherever they go and speak. Of course, their…
Recently, Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy urged people to socially boycott all those who did not participate in the caste survey undertaken by his government. Without going into whataboutery of his own mocking the survey conducted by the earlier Bharat Rashtra Samiti government headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao, let us analyse why people in…
