Aks -e- Hyderabad – Pictures of glorious Hyderabad జూన్ 17, 2013
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Members of the Hyderabad cycle club
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Fascinating Hyderabad : Aks -e- Hyderabad జూన్ 17, 2013
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Going back in time through timeless snaps
J.S.Ifthekhar, The Hindu, Hyderabad, June 17, 2013
‘Aks-e-Hyderabad’, a photo album with 600-odd stunning images narrates the tale of twin cities in a telling manner
Life brings tears, smiles and memories. Tears dry, smiles fade but memories last forever. All it takes is one picture to bring back a thousand memories. The Hyderabad of yore where time stood still, where the dust of the royal past never settles. How about reliving an age gone by?
Now, you can take a step back in time and enjoy a fascinating past. Aks-e-Hyderabad (Images of Hyderabad), a photo album brought out by Urdu daily Siasat , brings alive the past in minute detail. A picture is worth a thousand words. The album, with 600-odd stunning images, narrate the tale of twin cities in a telling manner.
Though there is no dearth of books on Hyderabad, an album is perhaps the first of its kind. Flip through the folder, and you get the feeling of a kind of videotape playing in your mind.
Striking images of Golconda, the Pearl City, the agony of the 1908 floods, modes of transportation, coins and currency, culture and civilisation, marriage, music and dance, jewellery and costume and the Nizams and their family flash by. Just about everything of the erstwhile Hyderabad is contained in 319 pages of the photo album.
The album covers the period from 1880 to 1960. “We have 1,300 rare photographs in our collection. About 650 have been included in this album. The rest we plan to publish shortly,” says Zahid Ali Khan, editor, Siasat . The credit for collecting and compiling the photographs goes to noted writer Allama Aijaz Farruq. (మరింత…)
NAPM Demands a Political Resolution on Telangana జూన్ 14, 2013
Posted by bharath in Andhra, Parliament, politics, Rayalaseema, Telangana.Tags: Medha Patkar, NAPM, small states
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NAPM Demands a Political Resolution on Telangana
Condemns Undemocratic Extraordinary Steps Against the Telangana Agitators
June 14, New Delhi / Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh is in turmoil once again over the demand of a separate Telangana. The struggle for a separate Telangana has been ongoing for a long time now. The central and state governments as well as the major political parties in the state have played opportunistic and partisan political games with people’s sentiments. Exploiting people’s emotions for vote bank politics, parties have supported formation of unholy alliances and politics of divide and rule. The uncertainty over the demand for a Telangana state must end now so that people can carry on their occupations and work without anger, ill-will and anxiety.
The formation of smaller states in the Indian Union is, in general, a significant step towards bringing the locus of political power closer to the people. Small states in India, given the population size of the country, will still be big by international standards. With a population of about 3 crores, Telangana, if and when created, will be viable as a state of the Indian Union. Demands for making governments responsive and accountable, need for redressing administrative inefficiency, and popular aspiration for a better life have set the stage for a new phase of states’ reorganization. (మరింత…)
Telangana only after 2014: Ajit Singh జూన్ 9, 2013
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Telangana only after 2014: Ajit Singh
Express News Service, Hyderabad, 8 June 2013
Telangana can only be formed after 2014 general elections and any government elected has to concede Telangana, believes Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh.
Addressing mediapersons here Friday, Ajit Singh said it was imperative for any party to have the support of Telangana people to get elected. “Once elected, they have to concede the demand for a separate State,” he felt.
Ajit Singh said Telangana farmers were bogged down by several problems and justice could be done to them in a separate state alone. He said he will be meeting UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi in about a week to discuss the issue of Telagnana. (మరింత…)
Respect verdict of people in 2014 elections & role of regional parties: K Keshava Rao జూన్ 4, 2013
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Have quit Congress with a heavy heart: K Kesava Rao
Prashanth Chintala, Business Standard, June 4, 2013
Interview with Ex- chief, Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee
Septuagenarian K Kesava Rao was associated with the Congressparty for almost five decades. The 72-year-old journalist-turned-politician had also held key posts in the party like the president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee and a member of the Congress Working Committee. The maverick politician quit the Congress on Sunday and joined the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS), which is spearheading the movement for securing separate statehood to the Telangana region. In an interview with Prashanth Chintala on the eve of joining TRS, Rao says he is leaving the Congress with a heavy heart. Edited excerpts:
You have been associated with the Congress for five decades and also held important posts in the party. Why are you quitting now?
It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to disassociate myself from the Congress party on the issue of Telangana (separate statehood for the region). I have no grievance or complaint against the party. In fact, I hold that its secular credentials and philosophy of inclusiveness are the best bet for nation’s security and growth. But, in the present context, they are no substitute for my Telangana. Now that the Congress is not going to give Telangana, at least in the near future, I cannot continue to deceive myself further, more so the people at large. I need to take their call.
What will be the impact of your resignation and the two Congress MPs on the party as well as the Telangana movement?
Let us be very truthful in these things. The resignations are not a game changer. They should bring some kind of moral pressure, not political pressure. Can a single MP from Congress today come and tell me that he is going to win in the ensuing elections? (మరింత…)
Telangana impasse – DNA జూన్ 2, 2013
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Telangana impasse
DNA, editorial, Jun 1, 2013
The Congress’s disastrous one step forward, two steps back policy on Telangana is unravelling. Senior Congress leader K Keshava Rao, along with three other MPs from Andhra Pradesh, are now planning to quit the party, protesting its continued dithering over granting Telangana statehood. The disgruntled MPs have openly accused their party of “not responding” to their long standing call, which has caught the imagination of large numbers of people in the state. Their move has serious political implications for the embattled Congress in the forthcoming general elections less than a year from now.
In the 2009 general elections, Andhra Pradesh had beefed up the strength of the Congress in the Lok Sabha by contributing as many as 33 seats to the party kitty. The political context has since drastically changed. The Congress today stands on a weak wicket in this important southern state. From all indications on the ground, the YSR Congress party headed by the jailed Jagan Reddy, has the advantage in the Andhra and Rayalaseema regions, while the TRS has the support of people in the Telangana region. Not so long ago, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was grappling hard with an emotive popular movement, with a cross section of people plunging headlong into it. (మరింత…)
3 Congress MPs at last realised their party betrayed Telangana, to join TRS మే 31, 2013
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3 Congress MPs join TRS over separate Telangana state
CR Sukumar, ET Bureau, The Economic Times, May 31, 2103
Hyderabad: Three senior Congress leaders from Andhra Pradesh have announced plans to quit and join the rival Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) agitating for a separate Telangana state, dealing a blow to the party’s prospects in one of its strongholds and chipping away at its strength at the Centre.
The three leaders-an invitee to the Congress Working Committee Keshav Rao and two Lok Sabha MPs M Jagannatham and Gaddam Vivekanand-are expected to formally join TRS at a rally in Hyderabad on June 2.
The decision of the two Lok Sabha MPs will further deplete the ranks of the minority Congress in the Lok Sabha and once again put the statehood issue, which it has trying to sweep under the carpet, on the centre stage. (మరింత…)
Five Decades Political Drama of Telangana Separate State మే 31, 2013
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Telangana issue always led by politics
Ch. V.M. Krishna Rao, Deccan Chronicle, 31 May 2103
Hyderabad: Though the issue of granting separate statehood to the Telangana region has been on the cards for over five decades, successive Union governments have ignored it. Almost all parties, except CPM, have declared their sympathy and respect for the sentiments of separate statehood, but none has done more than pay lip service to the cause.
Before the formation of AP State in 1956, though the demand for a separate Telangana was recommended by the First States Reorganisation Commission headed by Fazal Ali, it was ignored and the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ultimately decided on the creation of Andhra Pradesh based on the linguistic states formula. The Gentleman’s Agreement entered into had agreed to address regional issues, only to ignore them later.
There was no movement for Telangana state from 1956 to 1969. It was during Kasu Brahmananda Reddy’s regime that the movement took a violent turn. Scores of T-supporters were gunned down in police firings. Dr Marri Chenna Reddy started the Telangana Praja Samiti and bagged 10 LS seats. Several stalwarts in Congress lost the elections in the 1971. (మరింత…)
Telangana student leaders to contest 2014 Assembly polls from any party మే 31, 2013
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Telangana student leaders to jump into poll fray
Nikhila Henry, TNN, May 29, 2013
Hyderabad: The Telangana movement is all set to get a shot in the arm with scores of student leaders planning to step up their struggle after being promised tickets to contest the 2014 Assembly polls by various parties including the TRS, TDP and the BJP.
The student leaders, who had been criticising political parties for taking them for a ride by promising them their due, seem to have buried the hatchet and are eager to take their struggle for statehood outside the university spheres. They came out in open support of their leaders, saying the move was the logical next step and are now setting up offices and rooting to reach out to their voters in the 10 Telangana districts.
“We have been boosting the protests from within the four walls of the university, but it’s time to take up a bigger political struggle,” said Pidamarthi Ravi, a prominent pro-Telangana student leader from Osmania University, which has traditionally been a hotbed for the statehood movement. Ravi is expected to contest on a TRS ticket from Madira in Khammam. (మరింత…)
KCR tells cadre to propagate TRS manifesto మే 31, 2013
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K Chandrashekhar Rao tells cadre to propagate TRS manifesto
Deccan Chronicle, May 29, 2013
Karimnagar: TRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao asked the party cadre to take the manifesto of the party to every nook and corner in Telangana with an aim to ensure party win 100 Assembly and 16 Lok Sabha seats in the next elections.
Chandrasekhar Rao spoke at the political training programme for party activists at Husnabad on Tuesday. He said Telangana people should reject ‘Seemandhra’ parties Telugu Desam and YSRC and national parties Congress and BJP as they too were under the control of Seemandhra leaders. (మరింత…)
