Special Reports
By Alekya Pratap Neelakantam As an academician and an ordinary karyakarta of the world’s largest political party, I have spent years studying policy and participating in grassroots activism. But rarely have I felt as personally moved as I did when Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared, “It is my conviction that women will play the most…
Winning and losing are inseparable parts of sport. Even the greatest teams fall. But what unfolded against South Africa on Sunday night was not merely a defeat — it was a capitulation. For a side stacked with world-class talent, losing by 70 runs without mounting a credible fight is unacceptable. The setting magnified the disappointment….
India today stands at a legal paradox. We possess one of the world’s most sophisticated constitutional systems—rich with safeguards, procedural checks, and layers of appeal. Yet, the ordinary citizen feels increasingly vulnerable, the offender feels increasingly emboldened, and the victim is often left as a ghost in the courtroom. The fundamental question is no longer…
Special Correspondent Serious concerns over the security of Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy have been raised by senior BJP leader Marri Shashidhar Reddy, who has formally written to the state Director-General of Police and marked a copy to the Union Home Ministry, flagging what he describes as alarming security lapses. At the centre of…
From T. Shesh Narayan, Former Secretary, HCA Your Lordship, I write this letter with deep concern over the recent press release purportedly issued by an unauthorized and truncated Apex Council of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), announcing the appointment of a Returning Officer to conduct elections for the posts of Secretary and Treasurer. It is…
Formal Complaint to Justice Rao: Immediate Review of U-23 Women’s Selection By Yet Another Aggrieved Girl’s Parent I write this not as a statistic, not as a disgruntled voice in the crowd, but as a mother watching her daughter’s dreams being quietly dismantled. I write with anguish, not anger. And I write with hope —…
The 85th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG), held on October 18, 2024, at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, has raised more questions than it answered. What should have been a routine administrative exercise now appears symptomatic of a deeper malaise—indifference, reactive governance, procedural ambiguity, and potential conflicts of interest….
When global tech giants place billion-dollar bets, they don’t merely choose geography — they choose governance, vision and velocity. So, when Google Cloud announced its largest AI and data centre hub outside the United States — a multi-gigawatt, $15 billion investment — and chose Visakhapatnam over Hyderabad, the question naturally arose: what went wrong in…
By Vinay Rao The whispers inside Hyderabad cricket circles are no longer whispers. They are turning into uncomfortable questions. Across club offices, dressing rooms, and practice grounds, a growing sentiment is hardening — that the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) administration seems more invested in power equations and patronage than in performance and grassroots growth. This…
By A Parent I write this not as a critic with an agenda, not as a rival parent nursing personal disappointment, but as someone who has invested years — emotionally, financially, and morally — in Hyderabad cricket. What we are witnessing today is not an isolated controversy. It is a deepening crisis of credibility that…
