This video about the Ph.D thesis on the rise of Kammas has been making waves on social media. Her doctoral thesis explores the relation between dominant caste and territory in South India through a detailed ethnography of the Kammas of Andhra Pradesh, with an emphasis on their migration patterns and upward social mobility, from landed farmers to businessmen, industrialists and professionals. The aim of her work was to unveil the mechanisms of power and control that are used by the dominant castes to perpetuate their hegemony. Here is the Ph.D thesis paper by Dalel Benbabaali, which she read out in the video above - Dominant caste and territory in South India: The case of the Kammas of Andhra Pradesh In ...

Amidst all speculation created by mainstream media on whether or not Congress would make it on Telangana, Home Minister Shinde confirmed that the bill will be placed in winter session. The Group of Ministers (GoM) on Telangana on Thursday held a meeting with Attorney General G E Vahanvati and Law Secretary B A Agarwal to discuss legal issues with respect to the Reorganisation Bill, especially with Article 371-D. The GoM already was meeting and preparing the groundwork for division of cadre, assets and resources earlier. While handing most of the those tricky matters to tribunals, the GoM is making a clear administrative preparations to bifurcate AP with the bill in winter session. The status of Hyderabad continue to be the ...

Drawing Blood is an Indian-English concept movie ready to be released. It is an english film in the league of Nagesh Kukunoor’s Rockford, Hyderabad Blues, Hyderabad Blues 2, and Bollywood Calling and would be targeting the same audience. However, what sets this movie apart is the very personal level on which the movie’s story is based. The movie is about a struggle an artist goes through to create the much admired paintings he creates. Here is an interview with the Khammam-born Actor-Director Natraaj Maharshi, who goes by the screen name MaHa, about this emotional roller-coaster. How and when were you inspired to get into movies? I was a child artist through the age of 4. I acted in a lot ...

After THE HINDU boss N Ram declared on Twitter he will always stand by Visalandhra, the brainchild of his Communist friends, it looks like THE HINDU’s journalists got the much needed morale booster to go over top as Samaikyandhra proponents. Couple of days ago, THE HINDU’s resident editor in Hyderabad Susarla Nagesh Kumar wrote an OP-ED in which he said “The essence of Article 3 of the Constitution dealing with the re-organisation of States is federalism. The Centre has given short shrift to this concept by brushing aside the reservations of the Chief Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president. Moreover, barring two, all members of the Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to ...

National-award winning Shortfilm-maker Pradeep Maadugula is ready with his debut feature film ‘Billa Ranga’. The audio is to be released on 16 November. We wish him good luck.