The Andhra plutocrats are on a high after pulling off the Shri Krishna Committee and decided to celebrate it with some complimentary ‘action’ on the students who have been sticking out like sore thumbs all through. In what seems to be a planned, deliberate attack on Osmania University students to provoke them into a reaction and to brand them violent and discredit the Telangana movement, police agents have unleashed terror on behalf of the plutocrats last night in OU campus. They did not spare even the media and went on a rampage across the campus injuring scores of students – boys and girls and the Journos.

The students have been agitating non-violently and in the most innovative ways for nearly 70 days now. They have been the drivers of this just movement when the politicians let the Telangana people down. They have been clamped on with all kinds of restrictions and they have been successfully overcoming all by tapping into their constitutional rights. The Vidyarthi Garjana held in early January was a rude shock to the plutocrats. Even when the police and Govt refused permission for a meeting, the student JAC went to court, got permission and without the help of single political party (as per court’s directive) held a mammoth meeting with around 2 lakh students in the campus. Such is the fear among our Samaikyavadi brothers that they made sure many areas in Telangana districts suffered power outage during the meeting so that the Visuals don’t reach them! After that, the students held the ABVP Ranabheri, KU Vidyarthi Polikeka, Telangana Padayatra on a huge scale and took the Telangana movement into critical momentum. It is in this light that the politicians were forced to follow suit much to the consternation of the Andhra plutocrats.

The Plutocrats with their clout ‘managed’ the Shri Krishna committee Terms of Reference (ToR) so much that the Telangana politicians were jolted into submission by the sheer impact of the Andhra lobbying. The outrage over the ToR is now gathering speed in the students and only yesterday 15 MLAs from the region tendered their resignations. With pressure mounting on the other MLAs from the Telangana public, especially the students, the Andhra plutocrats decided to ‘act’ in a pre-emptive action and label the students ‘Taliban’ in line with their earlier propaganda. The Telugu Media for the last few weeks have been ‘obedient’ accommodating all Telangana news, including massive rallies/meetings, within bottom scrolls. So the time too is right for those in power but unfortunately couple of channels still were around in the campus and tried to film the Police attack on students. The police may be didn’t have time to talk to their handlers on how to handle press. Or maybe simply they didn’t care. So ‘treated’ them too. Even as something as major as this is happening, only those 2-3 attacked channels are reporting the OU events live while others are going ahead with their song and dance routine. But for these channels, we wouldn’t have known how the police themselves turned troublemakers. Instead we would have heard many more cock-and-bull stories about Telangana Taliban. Not that I am underestimating the creativity of our Andhra plutocrats. After all, they brainwashed millions of Andhras to believe in their non-existent ‘linguistic purity’ and ‘ethnic superiority’ by writing their versions of history. So as it dawns here in Samaikyandrapradesh, we may very well see news stories in their mouthpieces about how the OU Taliban cornered the police in the campus for 5 hours and beat them up, and new expert ideas about how to handle these student thugs!

Even as I post this, police is still not allowing maintaining the blockade over the university and refusing entry for doctors and ambulances to treat the injured students inside. As of now, we hear 1 girl student lost eye-sight, 40 students including JAC leaders, 6 Journos got injured. Visuals showed police vandalising private property and media property within campus. Even members of ruling Congress this is a Govt’s conspiracy. A 10 member committee has been constituted by the State Human Rights Commission and they are now on their way to campus. Th commission’s earlier orders in last 2 months have been violated casually. Now, it should consider itself lucky if they are allowed inside the campus!

(Source : The Argumentative Indian.blogspot.com)

Telangana festival Bathukamma

- Madhavi Tata

Political agitations that drag on and on fall into a set groove—usually, one tired rally after another, with a flagging media attendance. Not Telangana, where the fight for statehood refuses to be monochromatic, and is expressing itself in a riot of colours. The violence that raged across the 10 districts of Telangana in December has given way to a burst of innovation and colloquial creativity. From cooking on national highways to planting paddy on the roads, from washing clothes on the streets to weaving saris on a moving tractor, there is never a dull moment in T-land.

In Amanagallu in Mahbubnagar district, indoctrination is in full swing—village leaders have established a Telangana school, where students are given lessons on the movement’s history. One zilla parishad school in Adilabad district even hosted a daylong ‘election’, in which nearly a thousand people voted on the question of statehood for Telangana. No prizes for guessing the results.

Telangana ideologues like Professor K. Jayashankar calls this the genius of the common man at work. “Strikes, rallies and seminars are the usual ways to generate awareness in political agitations across India,” he says. “The citizens of Telangana are devising a new format for expressing their views peacefully. It heralds a new maturity in the movement.”

Women cook food on a Sircilla roadside

Describing how a TV crew from Delhi filmed, fascinated, as people in his constituency cooked and ate on the road, Sircilla MP K.T. Rama Rao (son of TRS chief K. Chandrasekhara Rao), explains: “These are not gimmicks. This is about finding novel ways to sustain a long-drawn battle so that the cause does not go unnoticed by decision-makers at the Centre.” Sometimes it takes a provocative form, with young people kicking around footballs painted with the faces of politicians perceived as anti-Telangana, like Jagan Mohan Reddy, Lagadapati Rajagopal and even chief minister K. Rosaiah.

Singer and poet Balakishan Rasamayi, the convenor of the Telangana Dhoom Dhaam Committee, one of the mini-cultural outfits that have sprung up now, says the football games are a message to politicians opposing the T-state: “We will not take things lying down. We will play football with you if you crush our hopes and desires for statehood.”

The most creative are the football games in which politicians who are anti-Telangana are painted on the footballs.

So it goes on, a playful mix of protest and creativity. At Mustabad, people make ‘Jai Telangana’ rubber seals and stamp them on currency notes. Barbers hand out free haircuts at Ilendu in Khammam district. Women roll beedis on a road in Dilavarpur, Adilabad district, obstructing traffic for two hours. Washerwomen stage Chakirevu (a clothes-washing fair) at Girnibavi village in Warangal while other protesters wash clothes with gusto right on the highway at Ramakrishnapuram in Adilabad. They call it a “cleansing ritual”. Students sweep roads and sell vegetables at Ibrahimpatnam, Rangareddy district. Their counterparts in Mahbubnagar walk on their knees.

“None of these ideas are coming from political parties,” stresses Rama Rao. Another T-protagonist, Prof Kodanda Ram, feels the movement has taken on a more spontaneous form this time, compared to 1969, when it was more “idealistic”. (Of course, there were also no TV cameras then.)

ABVP men plant paddy in Dichpally

Congressmen favouring a united Andhra beg to differ. “The students are being brainwashed,” says MP Sabbam Hari dismissively. “The poor, especially coolies and daily-wage labourers, are impacted the most because thanks to these agitations, there is no work for them.” But the agitators are unabashed by such criticism. “We will bring the lawmakers to their knees,” says a confident Bullikonda Veerendra, a student leader from Warangal. The fun has just begun at this T-party. The question is, with a decision on statehood nowhere in sight, how long can it be sustained?

(Source: OutLook India)

Please take some time to read these news clippings from 9 Telangana districts about happenings on one single day – 28th Jan 2010. I am sure you will feel elated to see how rural Telangana is resounding with the slogans of ‘Jai Telangana’.

Mahabubnagar: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/MahabubNagar28012010?feat=directlink
Karimnagar: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/KarimNagar28012010?feat=directlink
Nizamabad: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Nizamabad28012010?feat=directlink
RangaReddy: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/RangaReddy28012010?feat=directlink
Warangal: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Warangal28012010?feat=directlink
Nalgonda: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Nalgonda28012010?feat=directlink
Medak: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Medak28012010?feat=directlink
Khammam: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Khammam28012010?feat=directlink
Adilabad: http://picasaweb.google.com/konatham.dileep/Adilabad28012010?feat=directlink

• Click here for Telangana JAC Dharna Photos on picasa
• Courtesy: Dileep Konatham

ఇయ్యాల ‘సమైక్యాంధ్ర’ సోదరులు, తెలంగాణ వేరు పడితె ‘ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్’ పటాన్ని ఊహించుకునుడే బాధాకరమైతదని ప్రజలను భయ భ్రాంతులకు గురి చేస్తున్నరు, మరి 1950, 51 ల జరిగింది ఏంది?

1913 – 1953 మద్య మద్రాస్ ప్రావిన్స్ తోటి కొట్లాడి ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్రం, గెలుచుకొని సంబరాలు చేసుకున్నరు అని చరిత్ర చెప్తుంది. మరి అప్పుడు ఆంధ్ర రాష్ట్ర ఏర్పాటు ‘వేర్పాటువాదం’ కాకపోతె, ఇప్పుడు తెలంగాణ ఎట్ల అయితది?

1948-53 మద్యల మద్రాస్ నుంచి ప్రచురితమైన ‘బాల’ పిల్లల పుస్తకంల అచ్చయిన ఈ కథనాలను చూస్తె అర్థమైతది.

(Source: BALA childrens magazine 1948-53)

Nizams Letter to the United Nations (U.N) dated 23rd & response by UN on 30th September 1948 regarding the issue of Hyderabad State (which include 10 districts of present Telangana).

• Courtesy: United Nations Archives

Nizams Letter to the United Nations (U.N) 1

Nizams Letter to the United Nations (U.N) 2

Excerpts (Courtesy http://telanganahistory.blogspot.com/) :

… Meanwhile Laik Ali was pressing that the Hyderabad issue should be taken to the United Nations Organization. On 17 August, he wrote to Nehru that Hyderabad had decided to solicit the good offices of the United Nations Organization in order that the dispute between Hyderabad and India might be resolved and a peaceful and enduring settlement arrived at.

The Indian Government did not agree that Hyderabad had any right in international law to seek the intervention of the United Nations Organization or any other outside body for the settlement of the issue. And that as the Government of India regarded the Indo-Hyderabad dispute as a purely domestic one, they did not recognize the Nizam’s claim to invoke the good offices of the United Nations in that connation.

The below given are the detailed notes on the history of Ancient,medieval ,modern period of the Telangana region and also the freedom struggle, Razakar Movement and The separate Telangana agitation.

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No of Districts:
Seema – 4
Andhra – 9
Telangana – 10

No of Schools :
Andhra : 26800
Seema :13001
Telangana: 17594

Investment on Education:
Andhra : 1308 Crores
Seema : 382 Crores
Telangana : 163 Crores

No of Junior Colleges:
Andhra: 270
Seema : 140
Telangana: 176

No of Civil Service Jobs:
Seema : 44
Andhra : 213
Telangana : 67

No of Judges:
Andhra : 84
Seema : 15
Telangana : 39

No of degree Colleges:
Andhra: 170
Seema : 70
Telangana : 74

No of Lecturers:
Telangana : 66040
Seema : 40552
Andhra : 90435

Govt. Jobs:
SeemAndhra – 9,00,000
Telangana – 3,00,000

Medical colleges:
Andhra : 4
Seema : 4
Telangana :3

Medical Hospitals:
Andhra – 663
Seema – 305
Telangana – 270

55 Years struggle ~So the reason TELANGANA STATES~

(The pot of rice is Hyderabad; The woman represents Telangana people; and the greedy fellow represent the migrants from other regions)

డిసెంబర్ 25 క్రిస్ట్ మస్ రోజు,. ఒక మంచు కురిసిన ఉదయం. ఎముకలు కొరికే చలి పులి క్రూరంగా రక్కుతున్న వేళ! ప్రిన్స్ టన్ న్యూ జెర్సీ లో తెలంగాణ కు చెందిన ఎన్ ఆర్ ఐ లు ఒక సమూహంగా ఏర్పడి తెలంగాణ కోసం ముక్తకంఠంతో నినదించిన అపురూప సందర్భం.

అమెరికా పర్యటనలో నున్న ప్రఖ్యాత చిత్రకారుడు, తెలంగాణ ముద్దు బిడ్డ  లక్ష్మణ్ ఏలే న్యూ జెర్సీ విచ్చేసిన సందర్బంగా తెలంగాణ ఎన్ ఆర్ ఐ లు అతనిని సందర్శించారు. చిత్రకారుడు లక్ష్మణ్ ఏలే  రాత్రి కురిసిన మంచు కాన్వాసు పైన ‘పిడికిలి బిగించిన మక్క కంకి’ ని చిత్రించి ‘జై తెలంగాణ’ అంటూ  ఎర్రటి అక్షరాలు రాసారు. గొప్ప  స్ఫూర్తినిచ్చే ఆ అద్భుతమైన వేదిక మీద నిలబడ్డ న్యూ జెర్సీ తెలంగాణ వాసులు, తెలంగాణ చిత్రపటం ముద్రించిన టీ షర్టులు వేసికొని, ‘జై తెలంగాణ’ బానర్ పట్టుకుని,  ఒక సమూహంగా ఏర్పడి తెలంగాణ ప్రత్యేక రాష్ట్రం కోసం గొంతెత్తి నినాదాలు చేసారు.  ‘సమైక్యాంధ్ర వద్దు తెలంగాణ ముద్దు’, ‘సమైక్యాంధ్ర నినాదం బూటకం – సీమాంధ్ర పాలకుల నాటకం’, ‘సీమాంధ్ర పాలకుల సాంస్కృతిక, ఆర్థిక, రాజకీయ ఆధిపత్య దోపిడీ నశించాలి’, తెలంగాణ కావాలి త్వర త్వరగా తెలంగాణ రావాలి ‘, ‘ తెలంగాణ ప్రత్యేక రాష్ట్ర ఆకాంక్ష ప్రజాస్వామికం – తెలంగాణ ఆత్మగౌరవం వర్ధిల్లాలి’, జై తెలంగాణ జై జై తెలంగాణ’ అంటూ  ఒక్క గొంతుకతో నినదించారు.  గొప్ప స్ఫూర్తినిచ్చే చిత్రం గీసినందుకు లక్ష్మణ్  ఏలే ను అంతా అభినందించారు.

Christmas Day Telangana

సురేందర్ మద్ది, అనిత కోరమంగళ, నాగేశ్వర్ కడకుంట్ల, నరసింహ మేకల, వేణు దూది, వెంకటేశ్వర్లు చిలుకమారి, వెంకట్ పిల్లి, అమర్ పురుమాండ్ల, ఆనంద్ అల్లాల, సుకుమార్ , విద్య వెంకటయోగి, తుహిన వెంకటయోగి, తుషిర వెంకటయోగి, రోహన్ మేకల, వరుణ్ పిల్లి, అవి పిల్లి, మానస ఏలే, లలిత ఏలే, శిరీష విశ్వనాథుల, శ్రీనివాస్ కాథోజు, ప్రభావతి కాథోజు, హరిణి కాథోజు, నారాయణ స్వామి, లక్ష్మణ్ ఏలే తదితరులు ఈ కార్యక్రమంలో అత్యుత్సాహంగా పాల్గొన్నారు. తెలంగాణ ఆశలకీ, ఆకాంక్షలకీ అందరి మనసులూ  అద్దం పట్టాయి.

*For more pictures visit: NJ_TNRI photos on Picasa

Look at them, they are carrying weapons, attack them

Andhra Politician to the Police: “Look at them, they are carrying weapons, attack them”.

JNTU renamed 'Telangana JNTU' Hyderabad @12.30pm on 24th Dec, 2009

Mr.Pasam Yadhagiri and his team called home minister Mrs.Sabitha indra reddy and briefed about the T-NRIS arrest, she called the local police station and instructed to release them immediately, meanwhile Mr.Harishwar Rao with Mrs Padma Devender Reddy X MLA, Mr.Ramalinga reddy X MLA, Mr.Ragundan rao etc also rushed to police station along with their supporters to release the T-NRIs and Telnagna IT professionals, they all came out of the police station giving Jai Telangana slogans.

• Pictures of  ‘Save Telangana’ (Picasa Albums)