IT'S seven in the morning, but the most heavily protected home in Hyderabad's upscale Jubilee Hills is already humming with activity.

Walkie-talkie and carbine-toting security men patrol the gates, safari-clad bureaucrats bustle around with files, sundry officials work phones, fax machines, photocopiers. Inside his cosy little wood-and-marble home-office, Nara Chandrababu Naidu is hard at work, signing files, listening to mandarins telling him about works-in-progress, power outages, coffee plantations, Naxalite attacks, a fawning newspaper editorial, a proposal from the Hindujas. [More]

The incident is a shame and the brutality documented alarming, suggesting that the officers require psychiatric assistance, a condition that challenges their very legitimacy to guard the country's border. [More]

Krishna Srivatsava, one of the best beaureacrats in India, who worked with six Chief Ministers of different stats, explains about Chandrababu Naidu who worked with a dream & vision, contrary to the typical Babus, who looted. [More]

the U.S. House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and the U.S. Senate's Protect IP Act.
SOPA and PIPA are bills not yet approved as laws that would give entertainment companies the power to take down domains that host or link to anything they consider pirated.
Neither bill has been finalized for presentation, so language can still be changed. According to the White House website, the Obama administration is against Internet piracy but will not support legislation that restricts freedom of expression or thwarts online innovation. [More]

and i guess i don't need to take the names of those dealers in our state or country. [More]

Cartoons against Corruption by Aseem.

Note : few cartoons may make you feel too much, but probably that is what the cartoonist felt. [More]

Happy New Year 2012. [More]

Election Commission released schedule for 5 states assembly elections.

Elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held in 7 phases. Total Assembly seats - 403 [More]

India vs Other India. [More]

‎'safety' has never been the prime concern of businesses or authorities in the country. There is no value for the Life of a citizen. most of us are thinking 'everyday people are born and people die. This is just another accident'. Is this really an accident? 100 people died at the place where they came in the hope of living. All those responsible should be severely punished. There is a pressing need for public awareness on safety and strict enforcement on safety measures to be taken. [More]