Feb

19

Statehood for Telangana: The Current Stalemate

February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

- C.H. Hanumantha Rao The newly created smaller States, namely, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, have achieved much higher growth rates in their GSDP than the targets set for the Tenth Five Year Plan, whereas the growth rates achieved by their parent states, namely, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh fell significantly short of the targets. [...]

Feb

16

Plutocrats unleash terror on OU students

February 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment

This Image on this Telugu news channel is telling. Even as scores are getting injured in the most ruthless police lathi-charge and firing in recent times, in Hyderabad’s OU campus, this channel did it best to take it easy and go along with Telugu movie entertainment complete with belly-dancing. 3 hours and the police were [...]

Feb

12

Terms of Reference of B.N.Srikrishna Committee announced

February 12, 2010 | 4 Comments

The Terms of Reference of the five member Shri Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee constituted on 3rd February, 2010 will be the following:- To examine the situation in the State of Andhra Pradesh with reference to the demand for a separate State of Telangana as well as the demand for maintaining the present status of a [...]

Feb

8

Telangana Protests : Colours Of Riot

February 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Creative stirs keep the T-word ticking in AP – 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.

Jan

28

Breaking away: India’s internal frictions

January 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

Siddhartha Deb is a fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and teaches creative writing at the New School. He is working on a nonfiction book about contemporary India. (Courtesy: The National)

Jan

25

Telangana JAC Dharna Photos

January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment

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

Jan

19

Nizams Cablegram to the United Nations Found (dated 23rd September 1948)

January 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment

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

Jan

13

Telangana State Controversy: Indian University Students Take Up the Fight

January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment

-Riane Menardi HYDERABAD, India — In the middle of the University of Hyderabad’s expansive campus is a large, haphazard tent, pitched precariously with sticks and rope. On a weekday afternoon, about 25 graduate students sit cross-legged on a dirty rug, talking among themselves. They shoot challenging glances at passers-by, half daring, half inviting them to [...]

Jan

12

Nizams Letter to the United Nations

January 12, 2010 | 1 Comment

Nizams Letter to the United Nations (U.N) dated 23rd & 30th September 1948 regarding the issue of Hyderabad State (which include 10 districts of present Telangana). Here is the link to the U.N Arcive login if anyone of you know someone working for the U.N with access to the library / Archive, please contact us so [...]

Jan

8

Telangana Womens JAC clippings

January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Jan

8

Telangana on Google Maps

January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Telangana on Google Maps Google updates Telangana on its Maps, click here to visit Google maps Telangana State Announced by P.Chidambaram on 9th Decmember Telangana State with 10 districts is in Southern Part of India with Hyderabad as Capital City of Telangana. Major Irrigation Dams are Srisailam , Nagarjuna Sagar that are located in Telangana. [...]

Jan

5

Excerpts from Chidambaram’s speech on 31st Dec.

January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The text of the Union Home Minister Shri P. Chidambaram’s Report Card of the Ministry of Home Affairs for December 2009 Telangana The media has broadcast or published millions of words on the Telangana issue which, of course, is the right thing to do on an issue that is topical and of great moment. However, [...]

Jan

2

State of indecision

January 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment

The Telangana issue has both helped and handicapped the Congress By Lalita Iyer & Soni Mishra In the run-up to the creation of Andhra Pradesh, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had not been particularly happy with the idea of merging Telangana with the Andhra region, saying it had a “tint of expansionist imperialism”.

Jan

1

Telangana isn’t scary

January 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment

Ramachandra Guha is the author of India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy   The views expressed by the author are personal Consider these excerpts from a set of essays I have been reading:    ‘The people of Telangana find themselves in an unenviable state. Their fellow countrymen outside the State of Andhra Pradesh, [...]

Dec

29

Telangana agitation intensifies, thousands protest on streets

December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

The ongoing agitation for statehood to Andhra Pradesh’s Telangana region intensified on Tuesday as thousands of people from all walks of life came on to the streets in various districts to press for their demand.

Dec

27

Don’t need to feel inferior anymore

December 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

- Manoj Mitta Dec 13, 2009: On my visits to Hyderabad, my hometown, I often find myself looking for a CD or DVD of an old, forgotten Telugu movie called Maa Bhoomi. Though I come across a lot of old stuff going back to the ’50s and ’60s, I have never been lucky enough to [...]

Dec

25

Telangana Gosa 2: Kishore

December 25, 2009 | 2 Comments

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

Dec

24

Time To Listen The Painful Cry Of Telengana

December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister K.Rossaih has recently said in an interview that his government can not do much about bifurcation of state as it does not come under his purview and the center has to take action on it. It is interesting that Congress party says it supports the demand for [...]

Dec

24

Telangana Backwardness by Statistics

December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments

9 of the 13 most backward districts in AP are in Telangana as recognized by Govt of India according to the Backword Regions Grant Fund 2009-10:

Dec

24

JNTU renamed ‘Telangana JNTU’

December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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