The South Reports

Home » Archives: Uma Sudhir

  1. The different faces of the Telangana protest

    Posted by
    / January 28, 2013 / 3 Comments
    The Anna Hazare of the Telangana movement at Indira Park in Hyderabad Spandana, 19, first year college student raising pro-Telangana slogans. A very talented and graceful dancer Gautam, a B.Com student getting `ready for battle’ at the protest venue Mamata, a government employee at the protest venue. She is also...

  2. Telangana marches into Hyderabad

    Posted by
    / September 30, 2012 /
    It was a show of strength with thousands of Telangana supporters marching into Necklace Road in Hyderabad on Sunday. This came in the backdrop of the Centre refusing to take a decision on the contentious issue of statehood to Telangana, in the wake of protests from people of the other...

  3. Will Anna be a Mudhalvan?

    Posted by
    / August 5, 2012 /
    The road taken by Team Anna reminds me of a 1999 Tamil flick, director Shankar’s `Mudhalvan’ starring Arjun, that was remade into `Nayak’ in Hindi with Anil Kapoor. It was the story of a TV reporter who is dared by a corrupt chief minister to sit in the hot seat...

  4. Why Vijay Sai is Reddy for politics

    Posted by
    / May 2, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Vijay Sai Reddy is the man who has been described by the CBI as the brain behind the many business deals struck by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy and has been named accused number two in the disproportionate assets case against Jagan. After being arrested on January 2, 2012, Vijay Sai...

  5. Is India hostage to Maoists?

    Posted by
    / April 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    The first collector of the newly-formed district of Sukma, Alex Paul Menon, clearly hadn’t read how his senior in the IAS, Vineel Krishna in Malkangiri district of Odisha was kidnapped last year. Following pretty much the same pattern of sending Maoists dressed as villagers, Alex, a 2006 batch IAS officer,...

  6. On the 64 squares, 24×7

    Posted by
    / April 15, 2012 / 4 Comments
    One of the regrets we have is that our daughter Tejaswini quit training in chess. She had joined well-known chess coach and International Master Lanka Ravi’s academy in Secunderabad when she was just about six years old but a few tournaments later, we realised that it takes a lot to...

  8. Future bombed

    Posted by
    / March 22, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s clarification has failed to pacify me. After making a sweeping statement that “government schools breed naxalism and should be handed over to private players”, he has tried to do some damage-control, saying he was actually referring to “sick government schools in naxal-affected areas”. I would have...

  9. Posted by
    / March 2, 2012 /
    Matches are made in Heaven they say but making the weddings go global requires creative effort and Youtube. What could have ended up as a limited edition `Dilip weds Mohana’ event, a Tamil wedding in Singapore, has become a mini-global phenomenon in the last couple of weeks because the couple planned innovatively, took the effort to get it shot...

  10. Rajini & Aamir Khan in Bhutan !

    Posted by
    / February 26, 2012 /
    “You remember Aamir Khan’s real name in `3 Idiots‘? Wangdu. You can call me by that name.” That was the young reporter of `Business Bhutan’ offering me an easy way out of struggling to pronounce Phuntsho Wangdi. Aamir Khan was Phunsukh Wangdu in `3 Idiots‘. Once again Bollywood had come...

Archives