Special Reports
(N Nagaraj) As the 2024 general elections approach, the political landscape in India is heating up with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Independent National Democratic Alliance (I.N.D.A.) gearing up for a fierce battle. With valuable lessons learned from past elections in Maharashtra and Karnataka, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is strategically shaping its…
(Somashekhar G.V) The family members of D. Karthik, a 20-year-old IIT-H (Hyderabad) student, were distraught when he went missing from his hostel room this July 17. Their agony knew no bounds when his dead body was discovered on a beach in Vishakhapatnam two days later. Though the police did not find any suicide note, it…
(D Nagarjuna) An Indian-origin American who hails from the then Andhra Pradesh, B. P. Raju is a keen observer of politics not only in the US but also in India and Telangana State, in particular. With his analysis, he proves that the globe is a village and one need not be present in Hyderabad to…
(D Nagarjuna) Only in the recent past, I could make out what ‘whataboutery’ meant. Its synonyms are also equally difficult to comprehend, they being hominem, tu quoque, and recrimination. One wonders whether we had ‘whataboutery’ in the dictionary in the 1960s and ’70s during our school and college days. After getting into government we got…
(D Nagarjuna) In a veiled reference, Bandi Sanjay exhorted party workers not to rush to Delhi like how they did to complain against him but rather allow Kishen Reddy to function smoothly on the occasion of the latter taking charge as the new President of BJP. Killing two birds in one shot is a common…
(D Nagarjuna) A masterpiece acronym INDIA has suddenly made people understand its expansion and when it is read, there seems to be everything that people are looking forward to. The word inclusive forms the core of this alliance since somehow what people could see in BJP was that it became exclusive to people on communal,…
