An illiterate and unlettered man has composed the song ‘Jaya jayahe Telangana Janani Jana Kethanam’, which is learnt will be adopted as the Telangana state song. The lyricist, Ande Sri, who has composed thousands of songs, never went to school. He was a shepherd boy as a kid and the orphan that he was, Ande Sri was taken care of by someone called Jakkareddy Mallareddy, whom he describes as ‘guru’. If he has never been to school and has not learnt the language, how has Ande Sri been able to pen songs and write poems? “Don’t ask me how. It is a mystery even to me. I wish I understood myself to explain to you how I have been able ...

One look at it and even an unlettered person can say it is the emblem of Telangana, given the simplicity and the inner meaning of its design, that every Telanganite can relate to. Perhaps for that very reason, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) chief K Chandrasekhar Rao had approved the design within a couple of hours of its coming to his notice and finalised it as the emblem of Telangana. The man behind the emblem is Laxman Alley, a popular artist hailing from Kadirenigudem, a nondescript village in Atmakur mandal of Nalgonda district. He says he never even dreamt of such a good response to the design, which he designed without much expectations. “A well-wisher of mine, who is a high-level ...

The surprising Polavaram Ordinance from centre has poisoned the waters between BJP and TRS. Just when it was felt KCR was getting ready to get into a working relation with centre by accepting Modi’s invite and personally attending his swearing-in, BJP’s Central Govt, comprising Venkaiah Naidu & TDP didn’t think twice in promulgating the Polavaram Ordinance and bought in an unbridgeable gap, in this short time before KCR’s swearing-in. While non-NDA leaders like Jayalalitha, Naveen Patnaik and Mamata Banerjee skipped Modi’s swearing-in, KCR chose to attend and extend his hand to Modi. Now, union cabinet Minister Venkayya Naidu in Delhi said they have no invite from KCR so far for his swearing-in. And it is unlikely they will get any. ...

Allotment of members through lottery in the Rajya Sabha to the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh was completed on Friday in the chambers of the Chairman Hamid Ansari. As per the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014 7 members have been allotted to Telangana and 11 to the residual state of Andhra Pradesh. Interestingly, the vocal supporters of the 2 States are allotted to opposite State. Keshava Rao of TRS has been allotted to Andhra while CM Ramesh and KVP have been allotted to Telangana. The vacant seats of N Janardhan Reddy went to AP quota. Members alloted to Telangana - Gundu Sudharani, (TDP) C.M. Ramesh (TDP) G Mohan Rao (TDP) V. Hanumantha Rao, (CONG) Palvai Govardhan Reddy, (CONG) Ananda Bhaskar ...

In a disgraceful way, Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu in a press conference on Thursday afternoon admitted publicly that he personally fulfilled the promise of Polavaram made by UPA Govt through the ordinance. After about an hour, the news poured in that the President promulgated the Ordinance. This confirmed our story earlier that Venkaiah Naidu personally got the ordinance signed by President even while the union cabinet lied that they didn’t even discuss the issue. Venkaiah justified his act by saying that there is no controversy on the transfer of 7 mandals to Andhra and that all have agreed it at the time of passage of AP Reorg Bill. Then the natural question is why they had to lie about the ...